If nogo is doing substitute work because he's between jobs or has a disability, I would have sympathy for him.

But if he does substitute work as a career choice, than I don't have sympathy for his debt. Subbing is part-time work as far as I know. And not having coverage is a consequence of that choice. He should have sought other work or found a way to pay for the coverage.

What would be dishonest is if the subbing is to supplement other income from benefits or self-employment. Then subbing is most definitely a choice. And he should have purchased at least emergency coverage to supplement his VA coverage and the griping, imho, is unjustified.

$275 or less a month would have bought some level of coverage. It probably would not have covered all his costs, but it likely would have reduced the burden.

When you deal with the uninsured who by cigarettes and alchohol, all having cell phones and internet,etc., you will see how their priorities are out of whack. Also, all states now have the CHPS program for their children. I have questions about this 45 million uninsured figure. ww

- Doesn't have the responsibility to find a reasonably paying job. (Don't plead disabled vet -- Robert Heinlein was also a disabled vet, but managed to pay his own way)

- Doesn't have the interest to learn what benefits he does have and how to get them.

- Doesn't have the initiative to get himself to where he can get treated cheaply.

Then blames the world because things go badly.

His attitude seems to be one summed up by an old lightbulb joke:

Q. How many nogos does it take to change a lightbulb?

A. None. He holds the bulb and expects the world to revolve around him.

At $275 a month, he'll have that paid off in about 4.5 years. He received great medical care and is alive to complain about it. Between health care coverage and Aflac, my wife and I pay around the same per month. I don't see what he has to complain about.

The solution: less government regulation of the medical care industry. Government, by requiring a very high level of service as the minimum, has restricted the supply of medical care. More specifically, it has restricted the supply of medical care at the lower end of spectrum. Basic economics of supply and demand states that when supply is restricted prices rise as a result.

In a free market, scarce resource with alternative uses are rationed through price. If government steps in and by fiat demands that either price be kept artificially low (price controls) or that supply be kept artificially low (through licensing and regulation), the supply will be 'inadequate' to meet the real need. The latter is what we have in the health care industry. The choice is is either (a)allocation by price (decentralized) or (b)allocation by bureaucrat (centralized). There is no other.

I also think that perhaps a pre-negotiated 'limitation of liability' with the patient would help reduce the cost of malpractice insurance significantly. That is, prior to whatever procedure your physician is going to perform, the two of you negotiate a limit to what his financial risk is for the procedure. This would state, that in the case of malpractice, you agree to only hold him liable for up to some agreed upon dollar amount. This should have the effect of reducing the number of 'defensive' (read:potentially unnecessary) tests run. The fewer 'defensive' tests, combined with lower malpractice insurance cost, should help create conditions whereby it would be feasible to offer service at a lower price/performance point.

James Bond: "Do you expect me to pay for my own health care?"
Goldfinger: "No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die."

I'd say problem number one is that the 3 days and what sounds like a pretty modest problem cost $15,000. That's absurd.

Or is problem number one that insurance is expected to be provided through employers, which has contributed to the expectation that everyone have insurance and the massive overpricing of both insurance and medical care?

Or is problem number one that there isn't insurance so cost effective that people on that kind of income are able to afford it and encouraged to buy it with a barrage of marketing from all those competetive companies who want to pick up every last customer?

Of course there's nothing wrong with health care services, unless you mean arificial restriction of supply by the AMA, doing what any union wants to do. They've been wallowing in cash since FDR fucked with the economy. Turning it into a huge, lucrative industry made it worth curing, even inventing, lots of ills and becoming really good at what they do. Even LBJ has taken decades to threaten that at all.

For the no big dealers, $275 extra a month would shove me over into bankruptcy. Not that the $766 a month I pay for insurance hasn't already come close, and now I'm not allowed to risk dropping it for a while to become more stable because this is Massachusetts, and we can fix health funding if only we outlaw being poor.

Let me translate nogo idio again....

I made irresponsible life choices and I did not buy heath insurance. When I got sick, that decision bit me on the ass so now I want YOU PEOPLE to pay my bills.

THAT'S WHAT HE IS SAYING!

1. If he could have been cared for at the VA hospital, it would have been free to him there. So his BAD choice to go to a different hosptial cost him $15K. Why is he even a story?

You want to talk about health care costs? I'll tell you about costs. In 1994, after 60 days of testing, I was diagnosed with Cancer. I spent 6 months in Chemo, and was cured. I had medical insurance, but thanks to the way that company did business, I had a hospital dunning me for $20K while the insurance comapny was STILL PROCESSING the payments.

When all was said and done I paid $1700 for the health care I recieved. I had to watch everything the insuance company did, because they WANTED me to pay for $32K of the $97K bill, by doing the paperwork wrong.

What drove me into debt was the "disability insurance" I had from my employer. And for those that say I should have gone on Social Security? Social Security still had a year to go to kick in before I was eligibile for it, by the time I went back to work.

10 YEARS later, I paid off all the debts associated with the whole thing.

I am authorized medical care at the VA hospital (never used it), but I know which ambulance services will take me to the VA if I request it. If it's an emergency they will take you to the nearest ER and after you are stabilized you can request and be transfered to the VA. I've always suspected that NoGo wasn't wrapped too tight, so from now on you can ignore his 'ignorant' comments. Did he say he taught kindergarden or was in kindergarden. I pity the parents of an child in this school, brainwashed by the brainless. This is actually normal for any left wing democrat, it's the governments responsiblity to take care of them, including what is the normal persons personal responsibility. That's what you'll get under a Shrillary/Obama socialist/communist administration. No brain will be required, they'll do your thinking for you. I love it when a plan comes togather.

"For those unfamiliar with nogo's particularly incomprehensible form of English, let me translate:" snark from Jay Tea

and then Jay Tea writes...

"He says he lacks insurance, as it is offered through neither his job or his wife's"

and, from American Heritage Book of English usage

"neither ... (n)or. As a conjunction neither is properly followed by nor, not or, in formal style: Neither prayers nor curses (not or curses) did any good"

So who lives in a glass house?

Another often overlooked fact. NoGo is not only paying his medical bills. He is paying for the thousands/millions of criminal aliens that the hospital must treat, free. Go ahead, support the open border crowd. In the end it will be 'you' that pays the bill. 1/2 + of every medical bill, and medical insurance, is a result of treatment of criminal aliens and insurance driven up by the likes of The Breck girl (Edwards) and his phony multi million dollar lawsuits.

yes FreedomFries you caught Jay Tea in a typo... yippie for you.

Moron.

BW, who's to say it's a typo rather than untutored usage? Or is Jay a legal immigrant still struggling w/ ESL?

If one is going to cast stones regarding English usage, one ought to proof read so as not to appear foolish.

I smell a red herring.

Oh, FreedomFries is in here.

"Well, there's your problem."

Uhhh, I don't believe that that "Jay" is even Jay Tea freedomfries.

Nogo's wife should have driven him to the VA hospital. Another solution is Nogo should have claimed to be an undocumented worker, you know, like from Ukraine. He'd have his free lunch then and the hospital would have taken it in the shorts like it does for all the other illegal aliens. Eventually taxes go up to subsidize the freeloaders or the hospital closes from lack of payment for services rendered. (doctors & nurses don't work for free ya know).

Ahh, thought you were talking about the Jay in the comments. Proceed.

Yeah, I am not Jay Tea. His is even more of a pseudonym than "Jay Solo," blogging since early 2003, before Jay Tea. and more or less concurrently with Kevin.

Back when I was famous for "The Great Rat Race" in the Ecosystem, Kevin was still at the point where it made a difference whether he supported me or my competitor, depending whose links and traffic he thought would help him more.

The blogosphere has gone all to hell since the halcyon days of 2003.

freedomfries:

"Or is Jay a legal immigrant still struggling w/ ESL?"

Speaking of glass houses, I believe that is what is called a sentence fragment.

Let's rewrite it from a French perspective (or any other country that has universal coverage/care):

I had a medical emergency. The ambulance picked me up, and took me to the nearest hospital. I was treated and released.

I did not have worry about what was or wasn't covered, or which ambulance service is contracted with which hospital. I did not need a referral or fill out a lot of paperwork.

Best of all I am not paying off a $15K bill plus double digit interest.

As a side note: Bush wants to veto the medical coverage for kids bill because it works too well and people might start asking for coverage for all.

Two things to thank God for:

1.) That nogo survived his ordeal;

2.) That he's only a substitute teacher and his influence on our children is limited when it comes to the wholesale abuse of ellipses.

"As a side note: Bush wants to veto the medical coverage for kids bill because it works too well and people might start asking for coverage for all."

He wants to veto it because it is already being spread to cover families of those children, and thensome barney. Glad to know you are going to be moving to France soon.

d-hogg, this is what the president said:

"I strongly object to the government providing incentives for people to leave private medicine, private health care to the public sector. "

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070710-6.html

The president is more concerned with how much money the insurance, doctors and hospitals will make and not about covering kids.

Thats because he's pure evil barney, he wants all kids to either sign up for his imperial army or die. But you already knew that. (Coo-coo, coo-coo)

Bye barneygoogle. Hope France likes you better then we do.

jhow,

I'm sorry. I'm a great big doodyhead and a pottymouth, especially when I speak the language of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys. I abjectly apologize for both my words and my very existence. In fact, I need to be spanked. By a very large man named Bubba, preferably, while wearing a chicken suit and yodeling.

BarneyGump:
Let's rewrite it from a French perspective (or any other country that has universal coverage/care):

How very poorly informed you demonstrate yourself to be, again.

A study performed by the Canadian government on the Canadian government's health care system found:

While people in rural areas seem to fare better, Toronto patients receive care in four hours on average; one in 10 patients waits more than a dozen hours.

So, the good news is that nogo might not have had to pay for but 2.5 days after spending the first 12 hours waiting for emergency service...

This was an interesting editorial written by a Canadian doctor:
www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=270338135202343

Although, Canada does have this cool website that shows how many MONTHS you'll have to wait for a procedure. My wife recently had to have an MRI. The wait time - 1 day. Checking the awesome shows that wait times for MRI's in the Ontario province are typicall 110 days, but hey, they're targeting 28 days.

Moron.

Oh and Barney:

Here's the link for the quote and another excerpt about the tremendous socialist health care systems of which you seem to be fond:

Her client, Lindsay McCreith, would have had to wait for four months just to get an MRI, and then months more to see a neurologist for his malignant brain tumor. Instead, frustrated and ill, the retired auto-body shop owner traveled to Buffalo, N.Y., for a lifesaving surgery.

www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010266

Barney is moving to France?!! Good luck finding a job! Oh and they have a rightwing president there now too. You know, to clean up the leftwingers usual messes.

Bwhahahahahahah.....too funny.

Oh BarneyGoogle poo flinger, here's your French perspective.

Barney lives and works in Fwance. Fwance takes a huge chunk of Barney's earnings each month to pay premiums for his "free" health care.

Barney gets sick and calls an ambulance for an inflamed labia. Barney waits 12 hours in the ER to be seen and suffocates in the process. Fwances's health care system just got healthier.

There's no such thing as "free" health care unless you are an illegal alien or lazy ass scumbag liberal leech on society.

In 1994 the medical coverage was catching up with available treatments. NOW, doctors and hospitals has staff that their sole job is to get pre-approval for all tests and treatments. That way, when the billing takes place, all charges are relevent.

The new CHPS bill will take care of whole families and is the liberals sneaky way of starting universal healthcare without the debate. ww

Hey mikie, who said we had to have Canada's health care system? Are you saying that the great USA can't do a better job than Canada?

Here are some fact as printed in last weeks Newsweek:
Health care as percent of GDP US 15.3%, France 10.7%

Overhead
Medicare @ 1.5%
Private Insurance Industry @ 13% to 16%

Cost to cover all uninsured = $54-billion
Insurance Industry overhead at $120-billion ($40-billion as profit)

And let's not forget how well the "free" French health care system coped with a heat wave a few years back. Tens of thousands in French hospitals died -- often because the hospitals did not have enough staff (it was during the summer vacation month, so they were running w. skeleton staffs instead of hiring temps) to bring water to the patients to drink.

Yup, that's first-class Eu-ro-pe-an health care for you -- letting people die for lack of drinking water.

When it comes to health care, give a choice between giving up my money or my life . . . I'll give up the money every time.

Actually FreedomFries, given that we can assume Jay was writing in an informal style(he was, after all, commenting on a blog which the last time I checked was not a popular forum for formal prose) he was perfectly correct in using the word or. There is a difference between informal and near-gibberish as written by nogo.

"Tens of thousands in French hospitals died -- often because the hospitals did not have enough staff (it was during the summer vacation month" Mark L

Prove that absurd allegation from anywhere apart from the wingnut blogosphere. We dfon't need another phoney allegation from a misquote like Kim's piece on The Guardian.

BarnyGump:

Are you saying that the great USA can't do a better job than Canada?

No, I'm saying we're doing a better job than Canada. Further, I'm saying that the systems the socialist countries who you want the U.S. to emulate are fundamentally flawed and cannot work long term.

I'm also saying... please Barney, do your part to make the U.S. a better country and GET THE F*CK OUT! :)

Also, BarneyGump, did you have a point in posting the data ? Or were you just posting it hoping someone would infer a point for your lazy ass ?

Prove that absurd allegation from anywhere apart from the wingnut blogosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave

I don't know that the entry says they died in hospitals, just because of the heat, though staffing of medical personnel in the summer was one of the areas blames. Wikipedia also isn't the most reliable source, but other references are listed. I only spent about two minutes looking this up.

Man, freedomfries is striking out all over. By the way fries, I beleive those words are spelled "don't" and "phony". What were you saying about glass houses again?!

"This was an interesting editorial written by a Canadian doctor:
www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=270338135202343" _Mike_

Your interesting editorial comes from a Dr. Gratzer of the Manhattan Institute which shills for Bristol Myers, among others, and gets its right-wing funding from a number of sources, including the CDS sufferer, Richard Melon Scaife.

When you can cite an independent source as opposed to a "free market" huckster from a wingnut think tank in the pockets of Big Pharma, you might have a modicum of credibility.

FreedomFries:

Your interesting editorial comes from a Dr. Gratzer of the Manhattan Institute which shills for Bristol Myers, among others, and gets its right-wing funding from a number of sources, including the CDS sufferer, Richard Melon Scaife.

When you can cite an independent source as opposed to a "free market" huckster from a wingnut think tank in the pockets of Big Pharma, you might have a modicum of credibility.

ROFL! You're going to criticize me for citing an WSJ article, stating that it's not credible by citing an anonymous comment on this blog ? That's freaking hilarious!

Well a French source for the heat wave story is here:

http://no-pasaran.blogspot.com/2005/09/ugly-tone-of-gratuitous-contempt.html

I remember reading about it from his blog back in 2003. His 2003 archive appear to be gone.

To quote from it:

"Some pundits predict that Americans will now want a more muscular, "French" approach to government. But others suggest that it's best not to point fingers. They recall the heat wave two years ago that killed about 15,000 people in France.

In that tragedy, many elderly people perished in hospitals and nursing homes that lacked air conditioning. Thousands of corpses were discovered in sweltering apartments as the death toll escalated and French leaders, as well as some relatives of the dead, were criticized for remaining on summer vacation."

I seem to be wrong in one particular -- it was over 10,000, but less than 20,000. Tens of thousands was an error. I should have stated over 10,000. My bad.

Rodney, your Wiki citation puts a whole different flavor on the deaths from the heat wave than the slant that Mark L used to slam the French health care system.

While there were thousands of deaths across Europe, there were not 10's of thousands of deaths in French hospitals.

The heat wave in Europe and its occurence in the vacation month of August was a most extraordinary event and the resultant deaths are hardly a reflection of the pitfalls of "socialized" medicine.

Mark L's slant is typical of the wingnut excess used to slam a system that he and most of the wingnuts instinctively reject, regardless of the pros or cons that may pertain.

FreedomFried:

Prove that absurd allegation from anywhere apart from the wingnut blogosphere. We dfon't need another phoney allegation from a misquote like Kim's piece on The Guardian.

You know in this day and age of the internet it's oh sooooo easy to not look like a fool.

The August 2003 heat wave in the EU coincideded with Frances traditional "vacation time" when the vast majority of the country is "out to lunch" so to speak.

In France, over 14 000 more deaths were reported during the August heat wave than were typical for that time of year, and the total for Europe was in the region of 20 000. In Paris, the number of deaths increased by 140% over usual figures."

France's leading funeral company now estimates the country's deadly heat wave in August claimed the lives of 15,000 people. That number far exceeds the official government estimate of more than 11,000. A spokeswoman for General Funeral Services says the updated numbers include deaths in the second half of August, after the record-breaking temperatures had gone down.

The report partly blamed hospitals for allowing doctors to leave for August vacations. It said health authorities were too slow to realize how serious the situation was in emergency rooms.

"NO MAS!"

"NO MAS!!!!"

Although in reality you won't scream no mas, you'll go off on some unrelated tangent. (like "proper" use of the Englsih language)

ASSHAT!

WHAT!?

You didn't say NO MAS?

OK

Further, in August 2003 (after the book was published) Europe was hit by a heat wave that killed an estimated 11,000 in France alone. The highly developed, highly centralized, un-entrepreneurial French state was not able to address the catastrophe.

You have to know it was bad when the World Socialist Web Site notes the problem:

Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has come under increased criticism for failure to act quickly to deal with the catastrophe. The government launched an emergency plan in the Paris region this week to deal with the medical crisis, allowing for the call-up of doctors from holiday and providing extra staff and temporary mortuaries. The French Red Cross is helping care for victims and military hospital beds have been provided as wards have experienced extreme overcrowding.

Patrick Pelloux, president of the association of French accident and emergency doctors, indicated that a mixture of official complacency and budget cutbacks had exacerbated the problem. Speaking earlier this week he said: "The weakest are dropping like flies." He went on to accuse the government of complacency with regard to the deaths, commenting, "They dare to say these deaths are natural. I absolutely do not agree. No statistics are being gathered. There is no general information, nothing."

Paris doctor Muriel Chaillet told the BBC, "Last summer the situation was catastrophic and this year it is worse. We were not at all prepared--the hospital system is failing."

Spin that ASSHAT

mark l, "Tens of thousands in French hospitals died"

Your only mistake was "tens of thousands"? How about that part of all dying in hospitals when you own article says thousands died in apartments and only many elder died in hospitals?

"In the majority of cases, these were not inevitable natural deaths, but missed chances, that's to say lives that should have been saved in a modern health system," Francois Aubart, head of a Paris region medical trade union, said in an interview with the daily Le Parisien.[em added]

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,94607,00.html

Sounds as though Francois believes that the health system is to blame for the majority of the deaths...

barneyGRUBBLE:

Don't be an ass. (its hard I know but try)

Read the text in the links provided above, all the text. It will instruct you many of those that died at home were do to a lack of ambulances and emergency services. And they were lacking due to the moronic mandated socialistic system in France that dictates the vast majority of the countries gov be shut down in August.

Fries said:

The heat wave in Europe and its occurence in the vacation month of August was a most extraordinary event and the resultant deaths are hardly a reflection of the pitfalls of "socialized" medicine.

Sacre Bleu! A heat wave in AUGUST?!? That is unheard of! No wonder it caught everyone off guard!

Hey, it's almost August. I probably should break out the snow tires and the winter boots before Wednesday, in case I need them.

J.

JT:

Hey, it's almost August. I probably should break out the snow tires and the winter boots before Wednesday, in case I need them.

Not needed you "know" that, with all the global warming and stuff.

But just in case I've started giving my sled dogs an extra ration of clubbed seal meat to build up their strength in case of an unexpected snow fall next week.

The 1995 Chicago heat wave led to approximately 600 heat-related deaths over a period of five days. It is now considered to be one of the worst weather-related disasters in American history. (WIKI)

How could this have happened in the US with greatest health care industry in the World?

By the way the average Aug high temp in Paris is 77 and in Chicago it is 83 so Chicago should have been more prepared to handle the heat than Paris.

barneyGRUBBLE

You had to change the subject didn't you?

The 1995 Chicago heat wave led to approximately 600 heat-related deaths over a period of five days. It is now considered to be one of the worst weather-related disasters in American history.

How could this have happened in the US with greatest health care industry in the World?

Bill Clinton didn't care about them...

But seriously Barney, if you where dumb enough to ask....

600 in USA, 35,000 dead in Europe. Advantage USA.

Moron.

Barney, do you ever tire of hating the U.S?

If you hate the U.S so much, in all seriousness, why not move to where things are better?

I'll pay for a 1 way ticket anywhere you want to move.

Paul no worries, barneyGRUBBLE has a lifetime pass to uranus.

Paul, both Chicago and Paris about the same population (Chicago is higher). The French heat wave lasted 19-days, the Chicago heat wave lasted 5-days. If you calculate the rate of heat related deaths per day you get:
Paris = 97.6/day (1,854 estimated deaths)
Chicago = 120/day (600 estimated deaths)

BLow it out your ass Paul.

FACT CHECK

Barney you asshole....

France had 14,802 dead. That's 780 a day you ditwitted moron.

Wait a minute, heat-related deaths are directly related to a health care system? That's moonbattery at its finest.

It wasn't because these folks (largely seniors, the poor and the immobile) were denied health care or treatment for their heat strokes/exhaustion; it's because they had no way to fend off the elements via a/c, a cool shower, sit in a fountain or escape the heat of their apartments (as in Paris).

(I suppose you'll blame that on the lack of government-provided air conditioners available to the poor and senior citizens. It's our constitutional right to have A/C!)

Trying to directly connect heat-related deaths and the health care system is just crap-tastic logic.

But not at all out of the ordinary for Barney.

barneyGRUBBLE:

Paris = 97.6/day (1,854 estimated deaths)
Chicago = 120/day (600 estimated deaths)

SO!

A fine example of your most [in]famous trick. Post something completely off topic, wait for someone to dispute it, than spend a million column inches and hours debating it.

Got anything relative tto the original post or what was the center of the last part of it? (i.e. the rebuttal to FF's nonsense)

heh- look at my Fact Check, it was more Crap-tastic than you know.

Hey Peter, I did not bring up the argument "Wait a minute, heat-related deaths are directly related to a health care system? That's moonbattery at its finest.".

Your loony righties did!

My comeback was pure snark.

Actually, it is legit in the case Peter as one of the reasons for the 14,802 dead in France was the lack of doctors to treat the thousands who where ill.

So um Barney, what do you say about the 800 dead per day in France????

Cat got your tongue?

Fact Check Paul, you can't compare death rates for a whole country against a major metro city, but I can play that game as well.

You said that 35,000 died in Europe and 600 in Chicago. If you consider that 728-Million people live in Europe then the death rate in Europe would be .04/1000 while Chicago's would have been .21/1000 or over 4-times greater, so blow it your ass again.

>Fact Check Paul, you can't compare death rates for a whole country against a major metro city, but I can play that game as well.

But you did!

Then you did it in your next post. MORON.

babble2000 you just got you ass handed to you.

So let me see if I have this straight Barney....

In America we lost 600 people in an event that lasted just 7 days when they had little time to adjust...

The Europeans lost 35,000 people over 2 months, when they had more than ample time to adjust their response and didn't.

And think the U.S. system failed?

Moron is too soft a word.

You're right, Barney, you didn't bring it up.

My excuse? My assumption was based on your reputation for stupidity that proceeds you in nearly every thread.

Peter, that excuse is as sound as they get.

barneyGRUBBLE"

If you consider that 728-Million people live in Europe then the death rate in Europe would be .04/1000 while Chicago's would have been .21/1000 or over 4-times greater, so blow it your ass again.

728 million?

"Altogether, 462 million people were living in the EU on 1 January 2006."

Who's ass is blowing what?

Gotta love it when Barney sticks his head so far up his backside that he needs oxygen pumped in through his belly button.

You give someone more credit than deserved C-C-G.

barney is the proverbial fish in a barrel.

BTW did you get that email addy I sent via your blog email addy?

And is so did it work? If not I have a second one you can try.

So, Barney has a hissy because someone said tens of thousands for a number somewhere between 10,000 and 20,000 (for France, 35,000 for the EU)
Then goes on to nearly double to population of the European Union to make those deaths sound less extreme.

This my friends, is what comes from using your ass for a hat and taking it dry at the same time.

Actually it was freedomFRIED who had the "hissy" over numbers.

Then when provided links proving there was indeed a problem, albeit numbers were smaller but basic point was true, he scampered away from the thread.

I stand corrected marc.
So easy to get sanctimonious asshattery confused from one "fellow traveler" and another mixed up. Worse when they bring their sock drawer with them.

There's that good "Christian" CCG acting just like Jesus would want him to. Man, you are pathetic.

There's that good "Christian" CCG acting just like Jesus would want him to. Man, you are pathetic.

Trying to change the subject, eh?

Pathetic JFO, pathetic.

PS: Isn't it kinda rich for you to criticize someone for not acting like a Christian when you're actively hostile to people who do?

Martin:

Not that i need to defend myself here - I am openly hostile to those who wear their Christianity on their sleeves (CCG in this case) and then speak and treat others in a distinctly un-Christian way (CCG on a regular basis). And speaking of changing the subject try reading the "good" "Christians" comments and count the number that have nothing to do with the subject (the majority unless you count mocking as on the subject).

Would universal health care pay for tin hats for all liberals? I would hope there would be a BIG copay (durable medical goods).

Looks BarneyMoron having his brain(ass) handed to him ran back to mommy.

I see all the CRUEL-AID drinkers are in attendance and fine form. There is no reasoning with folks who think the victim should be blamed...It is OBSCENE that 3 days in a hospital for a relatively simple matter is $15,000 dollars. Those of us of a certain age can or should still remember when medical care was affordable and accessible to almost (if not) all. Whats changed??? BIG INSURANCE and their LOBBYISTS, they now make all the decisions and most of the rules. My Dr. now has to check with HER insurance before she writes a prescription??? Nothing wrong there? And No, there is no free lunch but I do expect to get something for my money. Remember, WE ARE PAYING one way or another and we pay MORE and get LESS. Having health insurance is no longer a guarantee of reasonable or affordable care...and dont you dare get sick or lose your job. The problem isnt the money-that weve got, its our priorities. 15 billion dollars a month would go a long way to making things right HERE...REAL border and immigration control, UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, education??? That is our future not money to 3rd world h3ll holes.

Brooklynbrenda

that's your fault for going with that insurance company.

Check around, not all insurance companies suck ass, that's whats great about our system, ITS NOT SINGLE PAYER.

For Example, check out Kaiser Permanente (at least its on the west coast, east coast, dunno), their doctors make the medical decisions, not the business suits.

"get something for your money"

imagine what you'd be paying in taxes, and then imagine a bloated government bureaucracy not even caring about the level of treatment you receive.

BrooklynBrenda, can we blame some of the health care bloat on trail lawyers like John 'silky pony' Edwards? They lined their own pockets, at least the insurance companies have stockholders.