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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed
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To: yard_man who wrote (243707)6/3/2003 12:54:31 PM
From: GraceZ  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
I had this discussion with a friend over the weekend. She was strongly in favor of nationalized healthcare insurance. I told her she was willing to pay 6k in taxes to pay for what should cost 2k in the free market just because she'd have the illusion that it was "free", it just didn't make sense.

I buy my own health insurance and the IRS even makes it 100% deductible. But even insurance is something of a trap. I know so many people who won't avail themselves of a particular treatment or preventative action because their insurance won't cover it when they could easily afford it. They'll wait until the condition requires a drug or surgery rather than get preventative care that they'd have to pay for themselves. They pay with their lives.
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