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Re: Insurance issues was: Lunelle/contraception coverageFrom: Robert J. Woolley (wooll005@tc.umn.edu)Wed Jan 31 06:00:31 2001
In message <200101310423.WAA10233@mail.medispecialty.com> writes: > Art - Touche`!! > > Bob - do you have a proposal - it is possible that you are 100% free > market/libertarian and your solution is to erase all laws regarding > these (and other?) issues and see what happens. Do you think there is > any chance that the humans of USA (or anywhere else?) have evolved where > the free market could really work and have enough altruism to go around? Yes. To be more precise, I'd say that that was the situation we had pre-FDR. Since then, charitable care of the poor and homeless has decreased as government care of them has increased. Which makes sense--people more and more see it as being the government's job, so why take *more* money out of one's pocket voluntarily to help? But if we stop taking about 40% of the average family's income for taxes, yes, I'm confident people will be more generous in their support of private charities. Furthermore, if we stop shielding people from the adverse consequences of their own stupid actions, we will have fewer in true poverty who need help in the first place. We have vastly increased the number of people in poverty simply by rewarding people for making idiotic, self-destructive decisions. Reward people with money (and free housing, food, etc) for dropping out of school, using drugs, getting pregnant, not keeping a job, etc., and--surprise!--you get more people doing those things. Stop rewarding it, and you'll get less of it.
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