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Originally Posted by robfromsc
Its so typical. He can't even take the slightest joke without resorting to name calling. I never called you names. My 5 year old can come up with better retorts than that.
Since you went there....
Your a close minded fool, and the most dangerous of them all, your so narrow minded that you seem to think your not. Your views are so singular that you can't see the forest for the trees. When some one questions you in the slightest you spin off like a buffoon. You think that anyone with a different idea than your is wrong, and typical to fashion you resort to petty insults. You cannot come up with a real argument so you either toss back what you've been taught or you spit blood and ashes. You cannot think on your own. But still you think you know it all, and I'm sure you'll have a nifty comeback insulting me personally. Everytime you speak, you prove my point.
You have no argument. Healthcare isn't some gold apple available to the elite. I'm by no means wealthy but still I've managed to have coverage my adult life. I've had to work for it and make choices but so what. I have a pre-existing condition, I have colitis, had it since I was 17 and I'm now 2 weeks from being 38. 21 years of coverage. Out on my own at 17, never had the govt or daddy to suck off of. I own a small struggling business, pay for everything myself. Sometimes you have to make the choice between smokes beer and bling and take care of yourself and family. Its a cause and effect disorder that your ilk suffer from.
Grow up, stop waiting for daddy to fix it and grow a set.
Clink clink dick.
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I understand your POV, and that of Rocky, too. Well explained.
I understand why you feel that healthcare should be a personal responsibility.
I also wonder if you bitch and moan about billions, nay, trillions, being wasted on "new-clee-yar" submarines that are obsolete when faced with super-cavitation torpedoes and stealth bummers that can't fly in the rain, as well as million buck bolts to hold together million buck trucks that serve no useful purpose in a criminally incompetent trillions-of-dollars war to augment even more the wealth of the tiny elite that appear to own your brain ?
You whine that everyone should "pay their way", yet seem oblivious to the simple fact that America is the ONLY industrialized nation that denies basic health-care coverage for it's citizens, yet spends more than the ENTIRE planet combined in stupid-ass weapon systems that mostly don't work, unless the wedding party is well lit up...
The vast amount of bankrupt people in America HAD health insurance, yet because your system is greed-based, found themselves between a Rocky and a hard place if they ever had the misfortune to fall ill.
I think this is wrong. It's inhuman, and it sucks.
IMHO.
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I don't know about you, Rob, but I would be concerned about this. Especially for your children and their children. And your "Golden years".
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The debate over healthcare reform in the United States centers around questions of a right to health care, access, fairness, sustainability, and quality purchased by the high sums spent. The mixed public-private health care system United States is the most expensive in the world, with health care costing more per person than in any other nation, and a greater portion of gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on it than in any other United Nations member state except for East Timor.
A study of international health care spending levels in the year 2000, published in the health policy journal in the
Health Affairs, found that while the U.S. spends more on health care than other countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
(OECD), the use of health care services in the U.S. is below the OECD median by most measures. The authors of the study concluded that the prices paid for health care services are much higher in the U.S.
The U.S. is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system, according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and others. The number of people in America without health insurance coverage at some time during 2006 totaled about 16% of the population, or 47 million people.
In addition, many or most of those with insurance are not sufficiently insured, with high-deductible policies, policies that do have limits on what they will pay for or policies that cost a significant percentage of their income.
In spite of the amount spent on health care in the US, according to a 2008 report, the United States ranks last in the quality of health care among developed countries. The World Health Organization (WHO), in 2000, ranked the US health care system 37th in overall performance and 72nd by overall level of health (among 191 member nations included in the study).
US pays twice as much yet lags other wealthy nations in such measures as infant mortality and life expectancy, which are among the most widely collected, hence useful, international comparative statistics. "
Clink, clink, glug.
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