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To: SilentZ who wrote (318178)1/5/2007 7:12:18 AM
From: steve harris  Respond to of 1573458
 
re:Unions
The current education rhetoric coming out for "fixing" our education system is mostly more money. I don't see how more money is going to fix it. Tenure doesn't mean much where I work. And a bad doctor who has tenure isn't going to last long.

re:Drugs
Car insurance is mandated or you can't drive a car. I think mandated health insurance would solve a lot of problems. It's not just the elderly who can't afford medicines, I think a lot of kids are in trouble because of their parents; not necessarily the parents fault, just the parents have to make difficult choices. Do we want to mandate financial responsibility before you can have children?

How far do you want to go with state control comrade?
:)



To: SilentZ who wrote (318178)1/5/2007 10:33:35 PM
From: steve harris  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573458
 
Z,
If we come up with government healthcare, do we start means testing for it? As in if you're too rich you don't get it and do we test for drug abusers, smokers, and alcoholics and reject their govt free ride?

New York already controls what you can eat, what's next?

Seems a slippery slope we cannot navigate. Sounds good, feels good, but will never work. Communism already failed once.