Thinking a little about my previous post, it occurred to me that we could extend the health care model to other government branches. Here is the model:

If you have money, you buy insurance and pay for treatment with the insurance funds.

If you have more money, you buy better insurance or pay directly to your doctor out of pocket.

If you have no insurance, you fall back on the government programs (state paid meaning paid by tax payers.)

Now, let's imagine that we applied the same model to the Department of Defense:

Everybody is required to pay for Defense Insurance.
If there is a war or a conflict of some sort, you pay for the war from the insurance funds.
If there are more wars, then your isnurance premiums go up.
If you don't have money for insurance, you fall back on a government program of some sort, or you are not entitled to be defended, meaning that the state would have no obligation to save your life.
Since there are a lot of poor people without money, how would they be defended from war?

Obviously the model fails for other goverment branches. We could send those without money to fight in the war since they are not entitled to be defended.

It seems stupid, but if healthcare was like the defense sector, American (and others) defense would be in serious trouble. Poor people would end up dead in the battlefield, while those with money would stay home safe. Sounds familiar?

It is interesting that those that hate the idea of full state-provided healthcare have no problem at all with Defense being the largest branch of the goverment and sucking up the largest amount of tax payer dollars. Those who preach small government are often those that preach an inflated Defense budget. I suppose war planes are more important than hospitals.