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turtoni fastmail.net> wrote:>On Aug 27, 12:56=A0am, Hardpan
yahoo.com> wrote:>> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:21:36 -0700 (PDT), turtoni
>>>On Aug 26, 5:26=A0pm, "jjs" wrote:
>>>> "turtoni"
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>> At least in those countries they have universal healthcare to take
>> care of their citizens, working or not. Here you either swim or sink
>> and die, trying to make it with no help.
>> And you want to call that "civilization"?
>> America is so far from civilized its not a joke. Of course we had no
>> problems killing native Americans and keeping slaves handy so it is to
>> be expected that people here are semi-barbaric, at the very least.
>Move to Canada?
>I think their unemployment rate is 15%%? The worst it's ever been in
>decades.
>"Discussions on anti-Americanism have in most cases lacked a precise
>definition of what the sentiment entails, which has led to the term
>being used broadly and in an impressionistic manner, resulting in an
>incoherent nature in the many expressions described as anti-American."
>I'm already paying a huge amount of money in taxes. In the UK there's
>talk that'll we'll be introducing another burden on the tax payer to
>cover the costs of the medical expensive.
There is no way that one can have the type of medical coverage
which I would consider reasonable. Neither the money nor the
personnel are there. One cannot repeal the laws of nature.
>What's the incentive to work hard to get your medical insurance? Why
>not just sit at home and get a hand out? That would seem to be
>natural, right?
Most people are Marxist when it comes to what they do not have.
The present plans are prepaid medicine, not insurance.
Insurance should be for rare events; you pay more than the
"average" to be able to handle catastrophies. This is what
medical insurance should be.
Even Medicare is welfare, in that what one gets our has no
relation to what one has put in.
Universal healthcare MUST result in rationing by government
bureaucrats; civil servants are neither.
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