>>>Unfortunately, in the US, we have a stupid system where payment for health care is tied to employment.
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>Yes. So now there is a Gordian knot: because we must keep government out of healthcare, now we need government to force people to undertake secular governance functions against their deeply-held convictions. Of course it's OK because we aren't talking about somebody important like smokers, it's only the Micks. This time.
I seem to remember the problem of the Gordian knot was resolved with a sword ...
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Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
