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Re: cpklapper - Re: My troubles are with people in power proselytizing health
Hopefully, you have direct health care, uncorrupted by insurance. In this country, such is not the case.
For some time now and at several points in my past, I have not had health "coverage". I am currently boycotting health insurance and have repeatedly called for its abolition. There is no fear involved.
There is, however, resentment about the cause of the "rising costs" you cite being allowed to operate with impunity, indeed being considered a "benefit" by its sanctimonious advocates. Perhaps "proselytizing" is too delicate a word to use about the actions of those advocates. Certainly, with the individual mandate of Obamacare, something akin to "ramming a scam down our throats" would be more accurate.
You may object to the use of the moniker "Obamacare" for the monstrous legislation with which we have lately been assaulted. Its given name, however, "The Affordable Care Act" is none of those things. It should be called "The Complete Corruption of Medical Service into a Pecuniary Operation Run By Bean Counters Act" or "The Maximization of Leveraged Inflation of Medical Fees By Requiring Insurance For Every Sniffle Act".
I presented a more complete description of the deleterious effects of health insurance in this column. My reform does not end, though, with striking dead the health insurance dragon. To solve the actual problem of public health, I propose a system of direct medical care provided to the public without charge and based upon locally operated municipal medical departments, with mandatory staff and facilities funded by the federal government.
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cpklapper
on May 2, 2012 at 10:48 AM
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Re: Kabu - Re: You done good, perhaps as we get older we get better at . .
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Kabu
on March 29, 2012 at 3:57 PM
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cpklapper - Re: My troubles are with people in power proselytizing health
As a citizen of a country where universal health care is my birthright, I have never understood the underlying sentiment of your comment. From your comment I assume that you yourself have adequate health care coverage and the fear of the unknown inherent in all current reform proposals has you without realizing it, rallying against your own self interest. That is of course, unless you are okay with the rising costs of past years continuing on the same trajectory.
I would bet that those without health coverage do not refer to those advocating health care reform as "proselytizing"
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gomedome
on March 29, 2012 at 10:30 AM
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Katray2 - Re: Seems an escape from zealotry frees a person to enjoy life
Sadly for some it is not an easy thing to do. I can't even imagine a sense of being trapped by most persons born, indoctrinated, brainwashed and living their entire lives in an oppressive cult. They would not have anything to compare it to.
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gomedome
on March 29, 2012 at 10:13 AM
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Kabu - Re: You done good, perhaps as we get older we get better at . .
That is it exactly.
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gomedome
on March 29, 2012 at 10:08 AM
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My troubles are with people in power proselytizing health insurance
Sad to say, I cannot simply avoid them.
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cpklapper
on March 29, 2012 at 3:38 AM
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Seems an escape from zealotry frees a person to enjoy life again
I've noticed that too. You're getting closer to your freedom..:)
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Katray2
on March 28, 2012 at 4:56 PM
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You done good, perhaps as we get older we get better at dodging
what we don't want to get involved in, perhaps they are sick of it all too, have given up, perhaps wifey told them to let it go. whatever the lady had a send off to please her bones.
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Kabu
on March 28, 2012 at 9:28 AM
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