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I was afraid as soon as I mentioned the "a" word that this thread would become a debate on it. We do have other threads that debate that issue, just like the gay marriage thread.
The problem with legislating morality that doesn't impact anybody else is that there is too broad a spectrum of what is moral. Do we legislate according the most lenient or the most strict? We tried Prohibition once and you see how far that got.
As for healthcare, Obama is not proposing one health insurer for all. He is proposing financial penalties (basically) to employers who do not offer health insurance, and providing affordable (sliding scale) health insurance to everybody else. That was my understanding of his "universal health care" system. While he would essentially expand the current federal employees health plan to include anybody who wanted/needed it, people would also have an option of buying private health insurance instead. I would also be opposed to one insurer for all as it would thwart capitalism. I can see Obama's plan increasing competition among health care insurers. One of my biggest frustrations as an employee of a health care system that owns it's own HMO is how limited my own options are, so I know how bad that would be.
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