Darthrich obviously does not know what Marxism is, what the health care plan moving through Congress proposes, or what the basic theory of public goods in capitalism is. What he offers is right-wing fear mongering.
A Marxist would advocate government ownership of the means of production; as long there are any private insurance companies, private hospitals, and privately employed doctors, it is not a Marxian solution. The current plan does not eliminate any of these three.
To argue against public education because you do not have I child in school is to argue that there is no role for government at all in the economy. The same logic would also lead one to conclude that we should not pay taxes for any public good we do not choose to use such as roads if one has no car, public libraries if one owns their own books, city sewage systems if one has a septic tank, or public safety agencies if has their own gun. Sharing the cost of such public goods—once enacted into law by our elected representatives--is part of the price of being an American citizen.
I suspect that Dartrich’s real complaint is that his side lost the elections in 2008. Get over it and deal with reality.
