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wow, from the pic she doesnt even look all that big compared to some iv seem. |
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But no one, not the Brits, not the New Zealanders, not anybody will do this better than Americans. We’ll need some catch-up time, definitely. But our apparatus is already in place.
Eugenic editing at the beginning of life. Euthanasia at the end. And care restrictions in the middle on those who are "too sick" for the system to help.
Budgetary requirements, you know. But more important: the universal care system must be shown to be humming along, to reassure the healthy, who will be most pleased by it, because, you know, it won’t cost them much. The kids will get their shots, why, almost for free.
But the really sick, they’ll only be gumming up the works.
I’m anticipating that a way will be found to evaluate the patient in terms of a cost-benefit analysis based on the carbon footprint. "Sorry, Sal, old pal, but your hospitalization, the energy consumption vs. the benefit to society for saving your life, well, you’re a huge net loss. Now, be a good fellow and take this slip with you over to the hospice. I hear the morphine drips over there are fantastic."
And one of the strongest political elements in American society will be a very well-fed health care sector, unionized, bigger than school teachers, and crack enforcers of the "get sick, you die" program that maintains the efficiency of the universal system.
Do I need to remind anyone of the boundless contempt that the Left has for human life? Well, it has only grown through the years. |
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Martin McPhillips
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Perhaps this needs updating:
First they punished the smokers
and I did not speak out
because I was not a smoker.
Then they punished the obese
and I did not speak out
because I was not obese.
Then they punished the lazy who didn’t exercise
and I did not speak out
because I did exercise.
Then they punished me
because I refused to take the anti-depressents they prescribed
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.
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Man. How do you tell a guy that?
I mean, really...
"We’re ever so sorry, but your wife is quite the porker, so she can’t live here."
What, is there a sign when you step off the plane/boat "But be this thin to live here"? |
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Hey....are you telling me that we implement a national health plan and we might start preventing undocumented workers from coming in because they aren’t healthy enough!
That’s wrong! That’s just wrong!
These undocumented working people have rights you know! |
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My wife and I have had similar noteriety with this issue.
It weighs on you after a while.
sincerely,
Jack Spratt |
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Man. How do you tell a guy that? Well, it’s a delicate task best left to professionals, isn’t it? People who can keep it simple so as to keep the line moving, as per Michael K:"Sorry you’re too fat to live here. NEXT!" |
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I like to pose this thought exercise to people who are both passionately pro choice and passionately in favor of government-run healthcare: Suppose that the US goes down the road to European-style nationalized healthcare, where the government provides all healthcare and private healthcare is prohibited. Then a very conservative administration eliminates abortion from the services provided, or throws up enough bureaucratic obstacles to achieve the same result without an actual executive order. Wouldn’t that instantaneously turn back the clock to the pre-Roe era?
The point is not that this scenario is likely to happen, but that shrinking the private sphere of life and putting more and more of our lives under the control of the government tends to limit freedom and choices. Not only Rethuglican freedoms like owning guns, but cherished liberal freedoms like abortion will be subject to the whim of government bureaucrats. |
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Keep in mind that national healthcare is being sold as a way to make sure every uninsured American gets healtcare coverage. But wait, in countries with nationalized health care, apparently they are actually trying to limit coverage rather than extend it. |
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While I’m certainly no fan of Govt run health care (for this kind of reason), I fail to see how this is any different from private insurers rejecting coverage because of a "Preexisting Condition".
While currently, it is only a large price differential for smoking... adding obesity doesn’t seem like much of a step... and again it seems like a small step to move from "large price hike" to "rejecting applicant". |
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While I’m certainly no fan of Govt run health care (for this kind of reason), I fail to see how this is any different from private insurers rejecting coverage because of a "Preexisting Condition". And this is an area were Ezra Klein and I agree completely. Remove insurance from the management of businesses and make it something that is bought through the market (I certainly have no objection if business would like to contribute as a benefit).
That way, insurance is portable and for the most part, "preexisting conditions" isn’t a concern (as long as you maintain your insurance). |
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McQ
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Hey! It’s for her own good.
"we might start preventing undocumented workers from coming in because they aren’t healthy enough!"
Au contraire, mon frere. For one thing, you have to catch them to determine if they are healthy enough, and enforcement is a no-no, as we all know. Illegals would eventually be in the same boat (heh) as the ineligibles, having to resort to going to emergency rooms for medical care. Ironically, the ineligibles would owe their access to emergency room care to the illegals, since no one would dare deny emergency care to illegals, and there can be, of course, no checking of immigration status. Being somewhat under the recommended height for my weight myself, I am going to learn Spanish. I may even permanently change my name to ElGordoActual.
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I fail to see how this is any different from private insurers rejecting coverage because of a "Preexisting Condition". I’m thinking there’s likely a distinction between restricting freedom of movement by force and saying your condition requires you to pony up the money to pay for it. If they’d allowed her in and refused to cover her it would be different.
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Ryan
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I’m thinking there’s likely a distinction between restricting freedom of movement by force and saying your condition requires you to pony up the money to pay for it. If they’d allowed her in and refused to cover her it would be different. They have no duty towards her freedom of movement - she’s not a New Zealander. Their mandate is to govern for the benefit of New Zealand alone. They don’t have to extend the same rights to a British woman that they do to one of their own. If she was a New Zealander herself then the situation would be completely different. |
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Boy could we use you here to argue against undocumented worker rights in the US.
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