Yes, progressives, your beloved socialist programs are born of a great compassion. But then they are used as an excuse for robbery, as people are forced to use the programs (because eligibility and enrollment are automatic--which means mandatory--for all citizens) and using the programs makes one automatically liable for restitution.
Whereas if people could opt out (which you, as a progressive, cannot abide because then there are no rich to rob for the gain of the poor) their private insurance would never do that to them. Because, after all, doing this completely circumvents the whole purpose of insurance. No one would buy insurance and pay their premiums every month just so the insurance company could keep your premiums in their pocket and charge you the full price in the end. More than full price, because all the paperwork this 'insurance' demanded drove the price up.
Yet you progressives continue to call this 'insurance', and deny that what it really is is organized crime and Stalinesque communist tyranny.
This is a very solid argument against every government program ever. This could be used as an answer against every last thing the progressives want government to do next.
If you oppose something as benign as health care for the elderly, you must either hate people or be crazy. Or maybe you've just looked past the sales rhetoric, and looked at the true nature of the beast. Which, I guess, is the new definition of 'insanity'...
I think we should use some good common sense compassion and understanding here in light of the fact that if anyone has a social security number--they are automatically part of the system of government that will eventually lead them to make hard choices when life or death are involved of ourselves or loved ones. People have no other choice in this system if they want to live or their loved ones to live.
Almost everyone will end up on this system and no matter what their current beliefs or political ideologies are--they will take the help they can get because it's their only other alternative to sickness and death. Let's not pretend that any of us would allow our loved ones to suffer and die a horrible death if there's help available. This is human nature to protect and help those we love the only way we can. So we can't sit self-righteously blaming or pointing fingers at desperate people who know they have no other good choice other that to suffer and die horribly because they can't afford their own healthcare.
What we can do is become a nation of well-informed people, bring Godly values back into society and personal responsibility eliminating the need for government assistance at all. We didn't become socialized over-night--and we won't become un-socialized over-night either. Ignorance of the people is our biggest enemy here. Electing politicians that will help eliminate many of the welfare and entitlement programs that are encouraging a lazy, ignorant and government dependent people who are abusing the system by using benefits that they don't need and can work.