Originally Posted by loepke72

Wrong.

The reason things are so out of control is because government and other third party payers have distorted the "free market" and removed much of the "free market" that would bring down cost and improve quality.

Waking up without a kidney would fall into the category of fraud and/or deprivation of property, and it would be a proper role of government to deal with such matters.

Capitalism and deregulation did NOT get us into this mess; rather it was failure of our government to do its proper job and deal with the fraud perpetrated by certain members of Wall $treet with their Ponzi schemes, derivatives, imaginary money, and so on. What these people did was fraud, pure and simple, yet Uncle Sam has done little to bring them to justice. Unfortunately, this fraud resulted in the common folk losing jobs, houses, etc.

The free market WILL fix things, but it is merciless in doing so. That is where private charity enters the picture. Taking my hard earned money and giving it out under penalty of law is not compassion; it is robbery, no matter how noble the goal. Paying taxes to support the PROPER functions of government is not a problem with me..


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