On November 23, 2017 at 15:51, Mac Burks (39) said...
Net Neutrality is an excellent example of socialist big government telling patriotic American business owners how/when/who/what they can do with their products and services.
If lots of people want to stream netflix then the cable company ought to be able to charge those people more money every month. No one NEEDS the internet. Its not in the constitution.
If the argument is that free access to all the content on the internet for $30-100 a month should be a right then why do i have to pay $500+ a month for health insurance?
A lot of people have reversed the meaning of the words 'want' and 'need'- they say/believe they need something when that's far from reality.
Fee-based utilities like electric power, natural gas and water don't tell people how to use these and that's one difference- if someone like the PMRC (remember Tipper Gore's group that demanded labels for "objectionable content" in music?) is able to decide how people use the internet, it will be the end of its growth. Reasonable tiers for data use isn't the problem (for me), but intrusice control practices are IF they become common.
The ACA is misnamed on many levels- it's not affordable and it's not about guaranteeing health care- it's a way to make sure the insurance companies are paid for funding health care by forcing people to share the cost. The biggest problem with how insurance companies operate is due to their admin costs being higher than the payments they make. If we could all use something like an HSA (and if this practice had been used more in the past), I don't think the health insurance would have become the monster it is. Hospitals, clinics and doctors have discounted cash payments from people who were uninsured/high deductible patients for a long time, but it's easier for some to just hand over the insurance card and let someone else deal with the payment.
