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So I am paying for your health insurance. You goddam FREELOADER. You are partaking of a SOCIALIST health care system? But you dont want others to have it too? Shame on you. Congrats for being in the navy long enough to retire well though.

Actually, health care (editing - I should say health INSURANCE) is one area where the private sector can be counted on to do a worse job than a properly run govt. system. Thats why Medicare has a very low overhead (less than 5%) compared to the private sector (a third or more) because the private sector has an incentive to weed out all really sick people from their system - i.e. the people who actually need it. It is also why our health care outcomes rank somewhere right near Costa Rica (no joke, look it up) while we pay much more than any other industrialized country. I am no socialist but it is just plain silly to think that the private sector is ALWAYS better at providing goods. If you doubt it, go look at any intro economics text and look at the section on "public goods". Even right wing economists like Milton Friedman dont think that the market can solve every problem there is.