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Originally Posted by roachboy
dk--i don't know what you're talking about above. could you explain it more please?
it looks like you're not answering my question and instead are repeating the outlines of a strict construction "problem" with everything that's happened legally since 1789.
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Roach, i've tried explaining things very simply to you in the past and have been met with pretty much the same answers you have given now. I don't know what else you are looking for except for maybe me to say you were right and I was wrong. What I'm saying now and have said in the past, is that you want every issue decided by government taking in to account where are times and situations stand at that precise moment in time and for them to arbitrarily decide whats best for all of us. That is not their job, in the 'strict construction' sense. We had that fluid system at one time and it was decided to break away from that and form a freer nation with government under our control. Going back to it is not something i'm willing to do.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
as for the american health system as barbarism--actually it isn't particularly rhetorical. within this system, the lives of the children of the affluent are worth more than the lives of the children of the poor, if you measure it by access to basic health care, which is obviously a significant factor in determining quality of life. that's barbarism. nothing rhetorical about it.
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the obvious fix to that is to open up the health care market instead of constraining it to a flowchart system of how to's with a limited and prescribed course of treatment/action. Medical prices are sky high now because health insurance companies rule the medical field, making decisions for doctors based on cost. This is wrong headed and has caused the 'barbarism' you speak of.