Affordable Healthcare Act upheld

[Sage]

I'm surprised that there's anybody left in the first world that believes the government has the competitive edge.

I sincerely doubt anyone believes having the government run anything is more efficient.

You're talking about economics though; efficiency versus equity. This isn't economics, this is ethics, and I believe I'm a consequentialist; I believe in the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

Privately-run hospitals are almost the antithesis of that, and certainly don't take things like the hippocratic oath seriously.

Access to healthcare - which in many cases is access to life - offers immense freedom from many worries and uncertainties millions of Americans live with every day. It works all over Europe. It would work in Canada if our system wasn't so corrupt.

I think it would work better if supplemented by private healthcare for those wealthy enough to afford it, but that's it's own debate.

Efficiency is important, but if that's all you think about, you get people seriously considering crazy things like abolishing child labor laws or the minimum wage (which is shockingly low in most states).

I see where you're coming from, I guess, but I place a really high value on human lives, and I feel our government is responsible, in part, for doing what it can to protect them.