Comments on: WaPo Alarmed: Japan Health Insurance Actually Insures http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/07/wapo-alarmed-japan-health-insurance-actually-insures/ The national media watch group Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:32:04 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/07/wapo-alarmed-japan-health-insurance-actually-insures/comment-page-1/#comment-9290 Steve Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:23:52 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12779#comment-9290 I have been a responsible and alert driver for 21 years. I have never been involved in a traffic accident of any sort, although I have avoided many. Those avoidances have been avoiding drivers who are not paying attention. How do you propose to justify this as fairness? I work hard to do well and you expect me to pay for those who do poorly? Don't you think people would exercise greater caution and respect for the road if the consequence for wrecking my car or theirs would cause them the loss of their own? I'm sick of you people expecting those who do well to clean up after the repeated messes of those who simply do not care. I have been a responsible and alert driver for 21 years. I have never been involved in a traffic accident of any sort, although I have avoided many. Those avoidances have been avoiding drivers who are not paying attention.

How do you propose to justify this as fairness?

I work hard to do well and you expect me to pay for those who do poorly?

Don't you think people would exercise greater caution and respect for the road if the consequence for wrecking my car or theirs would cause them the loss of their own?

I'm sick of you people expecting those who do well to clean up after the repeated messes of those who simply do not care.

]]> By: Doug Latimer http://www.fair.org/blog/2009/09/07/wapo-alarmed-japan-health-insurance-actually-insures/comment-page-1/#comment-9080 Doug Latimer Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:12:50 +0000 http://www.fair.org/blog/?p=12779#comment-9080 The only wealth transfer the Post deems just and proper is the one that defies the laws of gravity (but not the laws of capitalism), rising from those in the depths of despair to those who've lost count of their palaces, wouldn't you say? The only wealth transfer the Post deems just and proper is the one that defies the laws of gravity (but not the laws of capitalism), rising from those in the depths of despair to those who've lost count of their palaces, wouldn't you say?

]]>