JM>>> Yes.   Can you buy car insurance after a wreak? Can you buy   
    JM>>> fire insurance after the house burns down?   
      
    BK>>   You have to have car insurance before you drive.   
      
    JM> Not if you only drive on private property.   
      
    And if you could guarantee you will never need medical care I   
    would be willing to say you should not be required to be under   
    the medical care insurance system.   
      
    BK>>   ...   
      
    JM>>> What about them?  Are they expected to treat people that   
    JM>>> can't afford treatments.  If the person that needs treating   
    JM>>> can't pay who will?   
      
    BK>>   Thank you for admitting that your position results in, if they   
    BK>>   can't pay let them die.   
      
    JM> Life's a bitch.   
      
    I would trade all the wealth of all the billionaires in the   
    world for one child's life.   
      
    BK>>   If you chose not to have health insurance, and can't pay for   
    BK>>   medical care, then letting you die might be reasonable. Since   
    BK>>   the great majority of the uninsured have long been working poor,   
    BK>>   who can't afford insurance, then being poor is a death sentence   
    BK>>   under your theory.   
      
    JM> All the more reason to make life choices that help not hurt.   
      
    That implies omnicience. Your reasoning leads to, one mistake   
    should be a death sentence. Sorry, advanced societies don't work   
    that way.   
      
    Are you really so sure you will never be in that position? Are   
    you really so sure you will never make such a mistake?   
      
      
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
   ... There is something deadening about living life cautiously.   
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