>>My income tax doesn't pay for my health care. It may go towards medicare and other government funded programs, but it has zero effect on my health care costs.
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>It has zero effect on your health, but it is your health care cost.
I guess this thread is done. I apologize for trouncing your opinions of US health care costs with my personal example. I understand that it's difficult to fathom paying the equivilent of $0 for top notch health care, but that's what can happen with careful planning and sound investment. The power of the free market in the hands of creative individuals (like my father and grandfather before him) is unrestrained.
Wine is sunlight, held together by water - Galileo Galilei
Un jour sans vin est comme un jour sans soleil - Louis Pasteur
Water separates the people of the world; wine unites them - anonymous
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world - Ernest Hemingway
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance - Benjamin Franklin
