Originally Posted by CosmicTang

Hey Rochard,

I feel ya. It sucks for sure and I don't think your friend is lazy. Neither do some of the cretins posting in here. They're just not sharp enough to articulate their side of the debate. You can't really be angry at them for their ignorance.

What the other side is trying to say is that health care is not a right. It's not even a privilege. It's a business of goods and services to be bought and sold and no one should be getting something for free that everyone else works to pay for. You may not agree with that POV, but that's the rub. It's a philosophical difference and unless someone changes the way they think about it neither side is likely to budge.

I can see both sides of the argument and the merit in both. The only way to resolve this is a compromise of some sort.

Hell, even Richard Nixon tried to pass a law to provide health care coverage to everyone and he's hardly what you'd call a liberal.