"dave" wrote in message
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Editor RadioTalkingPoints wrote:


More or less, a serious illness can drive treatment costs up to the
value of a new car, and not even treat the condition, which is the
point I am driving at. Common sense tells you that you can't saddle
your government with those kind of expenditures and expect to not have
problems.


Health care was not meant to be mandated by the government, health
care was simply that act of God that is not meant to be regulated by
government. What's next, we all need cars, we all need homes, we all
need college educations, we all need foreign travel to different
countries to learn how to integrate into the "world community"?

You could say the same about the military.

You have a real insincere quality. I think of you as a lagging weather
vane.

My personal belief is that health care goes along with that whole life,
liberty and pursuit of happiness thing. Cars, education, and foreign travel
are perks, not rights. Homes... well, shelter is one of the three basic
needs to preserve life, but people have lived over the centuries in open
caves, straw huts, wooden shacks, frame houses, igloos. People still live in
the three latter, plus the occasional cardboard box or bridge.. Were it up
to me, all vacant buildings in inner cities would be converted to indigent
housing, with a requirement for some form of recompense (community service,
etc.) from those who live there, and a legitimate effort thereby to better
their own lot. But then, I'm not likely to ever have my way.