solletica
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- Libertarian
First the applauding for executions in Texas and now the willingness to let people just die if they didn't have insurance. Man the blood thirst in the republican party is border line medievel. And they say us liberals are godless.
Under a system where there's zero government intervention in the health care system, and either insurance money or private money is used to cover all health care expenses, an individual who had an accident and had no health insurance would be at the mercy of either society or his friends and family. If he were a wonderful individual--someone who had served his community, helped others, then I would say the community in which he lives has an ethical, but NOT legal, obligation to help him out w/medical expenses, or, at the very least, his friends/family.
Unfortunately, this is one of those cases where relative morality rears its head, i. e. there's no universal agreement on when someone deserves to be subsidized by others.