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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianWell, they are both compulsory fees for healthcare. I'm having trouble seeing why the insurance system would be any more 'free'.(Original post by UniOfLife)
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianWell, first off where did the idea of compulsory health insurance come from?(Original post by LawBore)
Well, they are both compulsory fees for healthcare. I'm having trouble seeing why the insurance system would be any more 'free'.
But secondly the differences are rather fundamental - with health insurance you come to some privately agreed contract with one of a number of different companies. And when you need treatment you visit one of a number of different hospitals or clinics.
With the NHS you pay what the government demands you pay and receive the service the government forces you to receive.
So the first one allows you almost complete choice and the second affords you almost none. -
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianI think you misunderstand me- I refer to freedom, as opposed to monetary thrift. However, thanks to UniOfLife for the helpful answer.(Original post by Collingwood)
No one has claimed that privatising healthcare makes it free. We're a political party not a wishing well. -
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianYou're most welcome(Original post by LawBore)
I think you misunderstand me- I refer to freedom, as opposed to monetary thrift. However, thanks to UniOfLife for the helpful answer.
I trust you will currently be reconsidering whether the Lib Dems are really correct and feeling a nagging sensation that maybe the Dems are holding you back from seeing the light
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianYeah the blue tinted light(Original post by UniOfLife)
I trust you will currently be reconsidering whether the Lib Dems are really correct and feeling a nagging sensation that maybe the Dems are holding you back from seeing the light
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianThe Libertarian colour is yellow. It has been since 1776. Socialist Democrats GTFO.
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianIt wasn't a collective decision. I had a question and I wanted to ask it. I'm sure that the Socialists would not want the answers of Labour to be taken as their answer too and likewise Lib Dems with Socialists and all other combinations.
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianAh ok, was there any political point to it though?(Original post by UniOfLife)
It wasn't a collective decision. I had a question and I wanted to ask it. I'm sure that the Socialists would not want the answers of Labour to be taken as their answer too and likewise Lib Dems with Socialists and all other combinations. -
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianI was wondering how any form of socialism or progressive taxation could be reconciled with the principle of equality before the law. I'm not sure I got an answer to that question.(Original post by davireland)
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianHeres the Tory answer: It cant.(Original post by UniOfLife)
I was wondering how any form of socialism or progressive taxation could be reconciled with the principle of equality before the law. I'm not sure I got an answer to that question. -
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianNo. If you prescibe totaly to one you cant have the other. We think that equality is the one to allow redistrabution of wealth. That said we dont suppord redistrabution to the degree that the socialists do.
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianI think you meant "subscribe"(Original post by DayneD89)
No. If you prescibe totaly to one you cant have the other. We think that equality is the one to allow redistrabution of wealth. That said we dont suppord redistrabution to the degree that the socialists do.
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianNo we hold equality highly, but not when it means damage to redistribution of wealth.(Original post by UniOfLife)
I think you meant "subscribe"
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianRight. So you do not support equality before the law, or at least it's not that important for you.(Original post by DayneD89)
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Re: Liber Question Time - Ask a LibertarianIts very important. Where it does not stop distribution of wealth, but rather enables every person to reach that wealth.(Original post by UniOfLife)
Right. So you do not support equality before the law, or at least it's not that important for you.
