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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (7898)7/30/2009 3:26:55 PM
From: Lane32 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
You trust those legislators who laugh at the idea of reading bills before they vote on them?

Of course not. But the laughs of legislators are not the law of the land. What's in the bill becomes the law of the land. If it ain't in the bill, it can't be enforced so it doesn't matter in practice.

I assure you that I am as skeptical about those folks as you are. Don't like them much, either. But I am a rational person, which means among other things that I don't cringe at figments. We can easily imagine worse cases. But until and unless we encounter them or can track a logical probable path to them, they are nightmares, not threats.

Obama has been making references to people being better off to just "take the pain pill" instead of having these expensive operations.

Do you really believe that there are no unnecessary surgeries going on? No surgeries that leave folks no better off or even worse off? Many procedures have been discredited in studies but are still performed. If we discouraged that, how is that a bad thing? Sure, you choose to interpret Obama's statement as a cavalier attitude toward pain as in "let's not set that broken leg but rather let him take pain pills." But that's a hyperbolic reaction.
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