Reply #116: You're missing the point though. [View All]

[Gwendolyn]

Single payer requires that as many people as possible are employed so they can contribute toward their own healthcare. Sales taxes add to the fund.

Take the scenario of an under privileged, lets say for argument, exceptionally stupid, single mother. She works at a menial job, making enough to keep a roof over her head. Dishing out $600 bucks for an abortion is prohibitive though. However, the government takes out a small percentage of her paycheck to subsidize her healthcare, and whenever she buys a dvd for her kid, pennies go toward it as well. Now she's preggers due to her own stupidity. She can't afford the abortion, so she has the kid. Now there's another child burdening other taxpayers since its mother doesn't contribute much to the system. Maybe the extra kid will require her to stay home and go on the dole, so now she contributes only pennies instead of dollars and there are two people burdening the system. Perhaps she's so stupid she has three more children, all provided for under the system. From a practical point of view, it's better to give the woman her abortion (which she already paid for, all the years she worked and contributed to her own healthcare "fund") than to keep someone else off the workforce, AND provide healthcare for the new non-worker and her brood.