Smoking in France a thing of the past?

[NirvanaMan]

Originally Posted by Scrooge McSam

Fearmongering

With so many of our industrialized nations offering universal health care, the world should be rife with examples you could cite.

Please do.

Well, not necessarily. We have become a culture of entitlement. "I want what I am owed" is heard time and time again. Our court systems are filled with frivolous cases. People win multi-million dollar settlements (at least initially) for spilling coffee on themselves. This is not the case with many other countries, including those that currently offer some flavour of government health care.

It would take the combination of universal health care along with a society that supports and embraces the idea that common sense is non-existent for the hypothesis proposed by sceagles to come true. The sliding slope argument is a fair one that has often been proven to be a valid theorem time and time again throughout history. Simply dismissing it as "fearmongering" is a bit silly in my opinion.