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Old 12-04-2007, 03:18 PM   #1
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Free Healthcare = The end of progressive medicine!
Free Healthcare might not be realistic, but it's certainly idealistic.
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Old 12-04-2007, 03:36 PM   #2
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Free Healthcare might not be realistic, but it's certainly idealistic.
And voting to make an ideal law is a good idea?

In an ideal world, we wouldn't need police, armed forces, money..... shall we vote to outlaw these so we'll be closer to ideal?

BTW, yes Britain has National Insurance. It doesn't give all the things promised in the bill that Merc quoted (thanks Merc, I hadn't read it). In fact it had to stop providing a lot of those in order to survive. And you have never been able to choose your providers to any realiatic degree. It just wouldn't work if you could. That list of pie in the sky is what gives the movement a bad name. You need legislation to deal with the "how" not the "what".

Voting for unrealistic ideals is stupid and asking for trouble.

oh dear, did I rant? That's my mean atheist way of spoiling everyone's Christmas

Would you believe I'm actually in favour of National insurance?
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Old 12-04-2007, 03:43 PM   #3
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Voting for unrealistic ideals is stupid and asking for trouble.
Explain.
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Old 12-04-2007, 04:30 PM   #4
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Ok, but what if your insurance company decides not to pay for a life-saving procedure you or your family might need done?
if it was not a service covered by my insurance then i have to either accept that i am going to die sooner, rather than later - or i need to find a way to pay for it if i don't want to die.

if it IS a service covered by my ins. company and they are being stupid i will visit an attorney.
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Old 12-04-2007, 04:56 PM   #5
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Old 12-04-2007, 09:59 PM   #6
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This shit is fuckin' up my perfectly good thread. Politics thread is here.
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Old 12-04-2007, 10:09 PM   #7
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This shit is fuckin' up my perfectly good thread. Politics thread is here.
My bad. If I'd just left it off my list, Merc wouldn't've started this shit.

I don't know 'bout the other, but I 's done. Lez back to topic, people.
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Old 12-04-2007, 10:14 PM   #8
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Nevermind. I don't wanna piss off Els any further.
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