I’m not sure the effort is worth it here. Jeesh.
On another note, once everyone is covered by health insurance or anything else, “people” become a burden. In socialism, that’s the result. In free enterprise, more people are better. That’s one of the big dangers of socializing anything. Then, the socialists try and eliminate people (by rationing etc) because they are too expensive and the distribution decisions get made by bureaucrats and not by pricing.
I am solidly against the original premise that I am responsible, ultimately, for paying for these programs to subsidize behaviors born from the lack of personal responsibility. Include in that, a government bureaucracy that completely restricts and controls peoples lifestyle choices. A government bureaucracy will decide how one lives....and ultimately who will live.
Getting back to the point of the article:
"The monstrosity of the welfare state is that the more virtuous and productive a person is, the more of his life and values he is forced to sacrifice, and the more unproductive and needy he is, the more he is rewarded for it. Like all forms of statism, medical socialism punishes virtue and rewards vice."
Because we already have this in one form or another, doesn't make it right. I don't understand why reasonable, freedom loving people don't get this. I say this, you should have the freedom to live in a manner that suits you as long as you are willing to pay the consequences on your own. Too bad common sense, wise choices and personal responsibility isn't used to govern people's lives.
Now it's increasingly the government and the use of my confiscated "values" to pay because it's "the fair thing to do." Horse feathers!