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Originally Posted by samcol
It's not bad to try and pursuade someone from smoking, but if someone wants to that's their choice and who are you to outlaw it. I guess won't be able to drive my motorcyle either since they are more dangerous than cars. I do a high risk job, should I pay more too? Seriously, that slope never ends.
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Prohibition of ciggys is a good idea. I've suspected for years that's the direction California is heading. I guess we'll have to wait and see. BTW, cigarettes aren't transportation. They only have a simple function: they're a method of taking in addictive drugs. While tobacco is actually a decent product and can be used to make useful things, cigarettes have no positive health value whatsoever. At least McDonald's hamburgers have protein.
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Originally Posted by samcol
So...I can't sue for malpractice when the doctor screws me up with a system I didn't even want in the first place. That's outstanding. Don't you believe in redress of grievances?
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I believe in reasonable reparations. Suing for $35m is a gross misuse of the justice system. I believe that if a doctor screws up, he should have to be forced into school and relearn how to be a doctor, and that the person who was wronged should be made well if possible. If the doctor slips and cuts the wrong thing? They fix it and provide coverage for that.
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It is a decision, not everyone feels the way you do. This nationalized healthcare garbage is just like Roman Catholic church of years ago. Everyone must follow the king's religion, no freedom.
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What about no equality? What about the $12,000 you'd have to pay to get your finger put back on? That's a magnificent drain. What about the freedom to not have to be sick or injured because you're poor? There's your loss of freedom: poverty.
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The other huge problem that we aren't even talking about is how bad the actual 'care' is. The FDA allows horrible things to pass (GMOs, pesticides, fertalizers, antibiotics, growth hormones all in the food supply that makes us sick so we can buy their cool new pill) while trying to ban natural cures. This is the system you are supporting and now you want to force me to participate. It's bad.  |
And what makes you think that any universal health care will run like the FDA? Because some governmental agencies aren't working, none can work? Slippery slope.
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Yes, the same politians who are bought and paid for by the mercs are likewise bought and paid for by pharma. They surely will save us all with their healthcare. I expect great things.
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Pharma is declawed under socialized medicine. Insurance companies go out of business, and thus can't affoed to have politicians in back pockets.
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hmm...$200 a month for police? I think ill pocket that cash and just keep my revolver handy. Come to think of it, if I never had to deal with harrasment from a police officer while I was minding my own business that would be fine too.
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So you can hold an investigation when a loved one is murdered when you're at work? Do you have access to databases with fingerprints? Do you have access to criminal records? Don't follow in suit with DK in thinking you could be your own police officer just because you have a gun. Being a police officer is a lot more than being a marksman.