Spot on. I had to look twice - I was sure Tom wrote that. Switching to sarcastic from ironic? .. :o) (I guess that should be sarcasm from irony?) Good one Dragan!


>>>>>All those liberals want is to have health care for everyone.
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>>>>Everyone has health care. You pay for yours, I pay for mine.
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>>>And those who can't pay do what? Especially the children.
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>>I don't understand why Republicans are so scared of universal health care. The health system remains the same, but you just have a single insurer (the government) which picks up the tab for only a tiny minority of the poorest of the poor. Everyone gets a better deal since their is no big slice of profit taken out of the pie. The insurer can also negotiate huge national purchases of drugs as a discount.
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>Ah, but with all the prevention that can be done (and is done) under a system, the savings could be enormous, the loss of work hours, diseases cured on the cheap (because they are diagnosed early) etc etc - would ruin The Market. Who would pay outrageously inflated prices for medicines? How would the deep pockets research budgets of pharmaceutical companies be filled? How would HMOs et al take their 20% of the cake if they wouldn't exist? Who would write software to handle billing for medical services under hundreds of different opcode lists if there'd be only one list?
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>It's so much better under the current non-system, so many more people make money on it. Apart from its being disastrous to your health, it's perfect.