I had missed whatever it is exactly that you do around here.

I think its important that we agree on a few items related to health care.

1)  Health care is often cheaper than getting sick and dying.  This is true both for the individual and for the government.  This is why California gives free pre-natal care to ANYONE legal, illegal whatever because its cheaper for the state to pay it and reduce complications in birth than deal with it later.

2)  Everyone gets sick and eventually dies.  Some people spend more time sick then others and to varying degrees.

3)  Some forms of Health care are expensive and not particularly effective to objective parties.  For example, You can spend $10,000 a day to prolong someones live an extra week which is not likely to be something you and I are wanting to chip in for unless the someone is ourselves or our loved ones.

4)  Government obviously should be providing all the health care that saves them money.

5)  Some form of investment in good health beyond what saves the government money is good policy because it saves tax payers as a whole money.  In other words if saying my life costs $100,000 and I have another $150,000 of earnings beyond my other obligations yet to earn its a good deal for society even if the ~$50,000 tax I would pay on that may not be a good deal for uncle sam without paying for healthcare out of additional taxes.  But the net is good for Taxpayers as a whole.

6)  Its possible to make Health care legislation that is totally about something different.  The Koyoto treaty was about carbon but was also about legislating how much carbon and thus energy and thus economic activity each nation could have relative to other nations.  As such letting China and India have more credits amounted to a massive virtual shift of future wealth from the USA to China and India causing some people who oppose global warming to also oppose Koyoto.

Likewise health care can become about socialism if we try and give everyone access to this highest level of Healthcare regardless of cost and tax all tax payers to pay for it the result can be a very profound shift in the flow of wealth if for example every person was entitled to $1,000,000 of  healthcare on their death bed for example there may not be much money left over to do anything else with.

To me personally its clear that the poor will never have the same access to Health care that Billionaires have and that thats ok.  On the other hand its bogus that hard working people are dying for lack of basic cheap health care and that needs to change.

You're back!!!

It's crazy the hoops we all have to jump through in order to keep ourselves insured.

Until we have universal health coverage in this country, I think all single people with employer provided health insurance should take it upon themselves to marry an uninsured person.

With regards to corporate taxation, as the article notes, the study does not explain why those corporations failed to pay taxes - whether for legitimate or illegitimate reasons.

People already do this for immigration purposes.  I was thinking of doing it to get into married student housing, but the University thought of it first.  Curses, foiled again!

So, what I hear you saying is:

If you like uninsured people so much why don't you marry one!