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Originally Posted by willravel
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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Again, so because people CHOOSE to harm themselves or be in higher risk, I get to assume that risk. The people you say should be charged more are some of the same people that cannot afford it in the first place.
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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.
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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So that heart you have in your body, what dollar value to you give it? your legs? what do you do if the doctor accidentally cuts off your leg or arm? He goes back to school, they give you a prostetic and pat you on the head and send you on your way? WTF is that?
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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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Because so far I have not in my lifetime ever seen a government agency in the United States work to my advantage. Understand what I said, work to my advantage. As an aside the deregulation of utilities has lead to more money out of my pockets than ever before for the same electricity and telephone. So I also don't see corporations being the end all either. A blend of the two I'm happy to live with in some capacity to prevent things like Enron, Tyco, MCI.
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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.
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.
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Insurance companies going out of business? So then where is my choice you touted I would have if I didn't want to get the Universal coverage? Where's the choice? If Insurance companies don't exist then where is the competition?
You are now touting a monopoly by the government, when earlier you suggested that people will still have choices.
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