>At root, except for the TRULY poor, why should I be coerced, literally at the point of a gun, to pay for my neighbor’s health care?
Even with the truely poor why should you be *coerced* to pay for their healthcare?
The significance of the Parable of the Good Samaratian is precisely that there was no coersion involved; it was illustrating the answer of the question “who is my neigbor?,” would the man that cared for the wounded man be a neighbor if there was a gun to his head? I think not.
Yes, you are absolutely right, and I WAS thinking of The Gospels.
I saw that inconsistency, unfortunately AFTER I had posted (no edit function on FR).
One too many clauses/thoughts in the same sentence.