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"Benefits to being in prison". Are you writing a comedy book or something and test-running your chapter titles here?

Are you serious? Really? You have said you would either go to jail or "deal with it"? That's what you call an "answer"??? And what would "Deal with it" include?

Are you human? Have you ever made a decision that was a "bad" decision in hindsight? Have you ever met a human? Just curious

Again it is telling the parts of the question you ignore. If you do not want seizures, what would you do if you couldn't afford the meds?

You missed the point of the question. So I will assume you can't answer it in all good faith to yourself. No matter when it was signed it was signed by someone who didn't ever expect to be in the state where death loomed or excruciating pain came up. At that time could you look at them and...

But if they had no money and no access to healthcare.... So I'm curious why you even put it out there in the first place? You are not. I assume a seizure is not a "pleasant" experience. So if you have your meds you will take your meds. If you don't take your meds I assume you will not...

I'm sure you are as good as your word. But then I've seen plenty of people take hard line stands only to back out of it at the last minute when the pain was bad. I'm not saying you would do such a thing, but this concept that people would be so well informed of how the future will play out...

Really? Is this why an alarmingly high number of personal bankruptcies are underlain by medical costs? Do people at minimum wage jobs (which many on the Right fight tooth and nail against increasing the minimum wage) have easy access to affordable healthcare? Before Obamacare I don't really...

So I see you are simply going to blow off the numerous times the "Mandate" has been explained to you? And this fantasy of people "consenting to not seek treatment"...do these same people ride unicorns? How many people, honestly, would agree to not seek treatment if they got ill? Now compare...

1. It is better than no healthcare reform. The topic has been discussed for nearly 100 years in the US. 2. I like paying for value. In the old system when nearly 10% of Americans were left without access to healthcare they often used the Emergency Room as their primary care facility. This...

This is why the Right wants more guns. To protect against the "bad" people that cause social disorder. One would think that such a learned group as Conservatives would "get" that you can't simultaneously conduct a one-sided austerity program and not have a bill to pay.

Let's start with retirees. Let's kick 'em off Medicare and Social Security. For those retirees who don't know how Social Security works: the current workers pay for the current recipients. Thus has it always been. So you don't "pay into it" for yourself. Hunger will "motivate" them to...

This "small drop in the bucket" goes much, much further though. Do you really think only CEO's of these corporations get out-sized bonuses? And it gets to the point where you have to ask: should healthcare be a "for-profit" business? Should it be a shareholder-profit generator? Is there...

I think that's why Al Gore is still quite popular

As was noted earlier, for profit insurance programs require about 30 cents for every healthcare dollar for overhead/paperwork and -gasp- CEO bonuses. CEO's get bonuses because the company has turned a profit. How do insurance companies turn a profit? By limiting the amount they pay out vs...

Why are "State governments" so much more wise and powerful than the Federal government? Will the States not just be government doing the work? Studies show that most people don't stay on welfare long term. There may be some, but not all. Many people ended up using welfare after 2007 and the...

But they pay really good wages for people like the desperately poor in China and other developing countries. Or at least that is what I keep hearing. So the problem is that we Americans want to live like...ummmm...Americans. If only we moderated our desires and were happy to live like 3rd...

Mr. Sowell may not know that about 30cents out of every dollar of healthcare costs go to the paperwork and administration costs of the insurance companies which by most estimates is higher than it would be with "Single Payer" solutions. It is "inefficient" to rely on scattered individual...

Seems inefficient. Why break charity and welfare up into a bunch of hit or miss items when we can do it from a centralized universal aspect and make use of economies of scale. I'd say that there's a bunch of examples of other countries that do this just fine and many of them are in no worse...

Ummmm, I don't know if you missed this or not, but the US and the global economy had a severe hit in 2007 that was nearly as bad as the Great Depression of the 1930's. But further to the point: retirees in the US could still get their Medicare and Social Security payments because those of us...