Say a man works in a coal mine for 12 hours a day. The man would have made enough money to retire 5 years earlier except the government imposed a healthcare tax on everyone in the country. For this reason the man had to work in a dark coal mine 5 more years of his life. He died the day after he retired. Was it moral to make this man work 5 more years for other's healthcare?
2007-09-28 08:43:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Don C, is it your job to tell the man he needed the healthcare or should he have been given the money to buy his own for his family? Just like a communist telling people they know better for somone.
2007-09-28 08:59:38 · update #1
Not likely.
Lets say the man died before he had to work another 5 years, leaving his wife and child without healthcare,
wouldn't he rest more peacefully in his grave knowing that they would NOW be covered?
2007-09-28 08:47:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
What you fail to account for is almost every national health plan care I've read states that if you are currently satisfied with your current health care you can keep it and not pay into the general health care fund. It will not be a mandatory thing. Being a coal miner, a union man, with probably many years of service I'm sure a man in the situation you describe would more than likely keep his existing plan.
2007-09-28 16:08:17 · answer #2 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
unfortunately, he needed the healthcare benefits, and so did his family, it just took it's toll. Maybe someday someone will figure out all this healthcare Bull, until then, we are all at the employers mercy.
2007-09-28 15:46:53 · answer #3 · answered by Angelbaby7 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Universal Health Coverage funded by tax money = "from each according to his ability; to each according to his need".
Sound familiar?
2007-09-28 15:57:43 · answer #4 · answered by Mathsorcerer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Meanwhile the neocon boss spends everyone's retirement pension on a new yacht and uses it as a tax write off.
2007-09-28 15:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by The President 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes.
Aren't you NeoCons the one's who chant about self-reliance and all that. This hypothetical man could've attended a trade school or community college and gotten himself a better paying job.
2007-09-28 15:45:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is never moral to take one man's hard earned money to give to some one else. When I was growing up we called it stealing.........
2007-09-28 15:50:51 · answer #7 · answered by Brian 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
2007-09-28 15:46:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋