[Urbane Guerrilla]

Should a government, whose function is enforcing the civil peace, emphasis on the -force-, really be in the business of selling insurance? Seems to this libertarian that it should really be done as part of the service industry portion of the private sector. There's too much of "the gov't oughtta this and oughtta that."

Government agencies are never as monetarily efficient as private-enterprise endeavors, so their functions should be confined solely to those endeavors a society considers necessary, but which no one really can manage to make a profit at. Most of these functions are protective of the society overall or coercive, largely both, as in military expenditures. This function is analagous to the horns on an antelope or a deer: they entail a cost to the productive metabolism of the body, but function for the protection or perpetuation of that body.

And the number of adult Americans without health coverage who could really make use of it is much much smaller than alleged by people who think the socialist model of health care is the perfect model of health care.