Salon.com: The Screwed Gen-Y becoming Libertarian, NOT Liberal!

I think it's genuinely misguided. I'm instinctively for universal healthcare, to me that simply means: everyone has access to the care they need when they need it, no more, no less. When people are ill I think it's wrong to saddle them with a huge bill that ruins the rest of their life. We can do better. In that respect everybody is for universal health care, that's basic empathy we all have.

I also think health care works better if people pool money together to pay for it. If you don't get sick, you've lost some money, but if you do happen to need that expensive surgery you're glad you did. So far this sounds like your typical liberal argument, right?

But getting the government involved is something else. Does that really work? The idea is the same, pool money just in case, but why do it through taxes? If people pay tax for their health care but their local hospital is still understaffed and undersuplied... maybe they would've liked the possibility to just give that money to their local hospital. Bottom up instead of top down where it first has to pay for administrators on a federal level, then state level, local level and finally maybe reaches your hospital. Unless someone in the chain decides different.

The only universal about that is that everybody gets paid, but nothing really happens in return. In my country we've had real universal healthcare (paid by tax) and a hybrid public/private system a lot like Obamacare. The first one worked, but got way too expensive. The second was even more expensive with even worse service. Obamacare is not 'like' socialized healthcare, it's worse because now on top of all the administrators, insurance companies now get a cut too before finally maybe it trickles down into actual care.

And that's when libertarian arguments start to make a whole lot of sense. Instead of 100 euros a month to that system, why don't I just subscribe to my local hospital: pay them 10 each month for access if I need it and peace of mind if I don't. Or let it be more if they need, at least I know that it gives my neighbors the care they need. I bet you get more effective care at less cost and everybody can see where the money goes. That is a free market.

Liberals are afraid of the free market, because they associate that with big companies, big pharma, big banks. Libertarians know that it's actually them blocking the free market by nagisting on regulations that favor big business over true private initiative.

Wrong.
Universal healthcare done through gvnmt is socialisam, otherwise it is just a human idea of ideal world. Just like the idea of freedom for all. for example, if your father or grandfather is ill you'll pay him the treatment whatever the cost is and despite the fact that he is or he is not paying any insurance, right? Now, just enlarge this attitude to all human beings. Got it? Well, that's the point of charity healthcare as teached by our great man, Ron Paul.

Because they are getting all their news from the traditional sources and as we all know by now, those sources are trying to suppress the liberty movement and any positive coverage of Ron Paul. Generation Y gets its news from social media and the internet, so they have bypassed the bias filter of the MSM.