Why We Don't Want "Free" Medical Care

Keith Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:49:23 +0000, Mike.....
wrote:

Following up to Tim C. wrote:

Horrors!! How could they possibly be happy without socialism?

Who mentioned socialism? You need a reading and comprehension
refresher course, I think.
right wing Americans regard free at point of use medicine as
socialism, I suspect that's why it frightens them.

Although this statement was not agreed in advance by the Politburo's
Central Committee (careful, in future, Comrade Mikhail), you've
probably hit the nail on the head.

A close relative of mine tried to have a discussion about this with a US
co-worker. For some reason, free-at-point-of-use medical care is 'bad'
- but free-at-point-of-use fire service, police, and public education
are not bad. And illegal immigrants somehow found their way into the
argument/discussion.....

Following up to S Viemeister wrote:

A close relative of mine tried to have a discussion about this with a US
co-worker. For some reason, free-at-point-of-use medical care is 'bad'
- but free-at-point-of-use fire service, police, and public education
are not bad. And illegal immigrants somehow found their way into the
argument/discussion.....

a polite European at that point changes the subject to gun control,
Iraq or "switching" :-)
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On the particular moment of Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:08:40 +0100 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Tim C.
put forth:

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:38:06 +0100, Dusty Furtile Morrocan
wrote:

However, since Europe is
routinely being subsidized at our expense,

How is it that "Europe" manages to get the "cheap"drugs while the US
can't?

Careful with them attributions mate! I didn't write that!
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On the particular moment of Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:50:44 GMT in relation
to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy,
(John Kulp) put forth:

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:40:20 +0100, Tim C.
wrote:

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:54:24 GMT, (John Kulp)
wrote:

It's the sort of thing to do when you are young and adventurous. I've
been to some pretty rough places, but no where really poor like Sudan,
Bangladesh, or Afghanistan. There is little health support in those
places, even if you are relatively wealthy. Poor people just get sick
and die.

The ironic thing is just how happy the people can be!

Horrors!! How could they possibly be happy without socialism?


Who mentioned socialism? You need a reading and comprehension
refresher course, I think.

Can't tell a joke either huh?

You need to make it funny.
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On the particular moment of Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:52:40 +0000 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Mike.....
put forth:

Following up to S Viemeister wrote:

A close relative of mine tried to have a discussion about this with a US
co-worker. For some reason, free-at-point-of-use medical care is 'bad'
- but free-at-point-of-use fire service, police, and public education
are not bad. And illegal immigrants somehow found their way into the
argument/discussion.....

a polite European at that point changes the subject to gun control,
Iraq or "switching" :-)

Just ask them how many Canadian dollars or Euros a buck can buy.
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On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:31:39 -0500, S Viemeister
wrote:

Keith Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:49:23 +0000, Mike.....
wrote:

Following up to Tim C. wrote:

Horrors!! How could they possibly be happy without socialism?

Who mentioned socialism? You need a reading and comprehension
refresher course, I think.
right wing Americans regard free at point of use medicine as
socialism, I suspect that's why it frightens them.

Although this statement was not agreed in advance by the Politburo's
Central Committee (careful, in future, Comrade Mikhail), you've
probably hit the nail on the head.

A close relative of mine tried to have a discussion about this with a US
co-worker. For some reason, free-at-point-of-use medical care is 'bad'
- but free-at-point-of-use fire service, police, and public education
are not bad. And illegal immigrants somehow found their way into the
argument/discussion.....

Just another stupid generalization

On 26 Feb, 00:16, Keith Anderson wrote:
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:12:06 -0600, "Gregory Morrow"

wrote:

Last month or so a Brit nooze source (_Guardian_, BBC?) was lamenting that
in a survey a majority of UK secondary school students thought that Winston
Churchill was a fictional character, some thought out of Shakespeare --
etc., etc....the amount of ignorance was amazing. The survey was about UK
history/places/things, I easily got all the right answers...how could
someone living there bollox it up so badly, I thought.

Might have posted this before - apologies if so.

I did an exercise with UK travel and tourism students about various
types of tourist attraction (National Parks, AONBs [Areas of
Outstanding Natural Beauty], heritage attractions, seaside resorts,
theme parks etc.

We discussed what kind of facilities and activities were available at
such places and then the students had to plot some of the attractions
on a blank outline map.

You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife. I'd split the class
into groups and given them road atlases to help them with the
assignment, but it was clear that none of them knew how to read a map
or where anything was. They simply did not recognise a map of their
own country.

I asked them how many had done geography at school. Twenty hands out
of twenty. When I asked how many had done UK geography, two hands out
of 20 went up. I asked the rest what they'd done in geography.

"Yurr, we done volcanoes 'n that."

In the old "O"- level syllabus we did a lot of mapwork which we could
relate to other topics (drainage systems, geomorphology, economic
geography etc) but it seems that this has more or less disappeared
from the curriculum. According to former colleagues, history is taught
in small time-spans, so that the idea of cause and effect has been
effectively lost.

Seems that colleges and universities have a lot of remedial teaching
to do and that the school system has really gone down the toilet.

That was my experience, anyway.

Keith (formerly of Bristol UK)
now moved to Berlin/nach Berlin umgezogen

....a Project Manager I'm currently working with, thought that Denmark
was part of the Netherlands, and he is in charge of a 6 figure
budget...

The ironic thing is just how happy the people can be!

Horrors!! How could they possibly be happy without socialism?


Who mentioned socialism? You need a reading and comprehension
refresher course, I think.

Can't tell a joke either huh?

You need to make it funny.

That would help, yes.

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:43:07 GMT, (John Kulp)
wrote:

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:50:41 +0100, Tim C.
wrote:

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:29:42 GMT, (John Kulp)
wrote:

everyone that disagrees with him as a rightwing loon

I wouldn't label Jay as a loon.

You're not Mike

Obviously, and your point is?

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:30:26 +0100, Dusty Furtile Morrocan
wrote:

On the particular moment of Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:08:40 +0100 in
relation to Mary's disappointingly immaculate rumpy pumpy, Tim C.
put forth:

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:38:06 +0100, Dusty Furtile Morrocan
wrote:

However, since Europe is
routinely being subsidized at our expense,

How is it that "Europe" manages to get the "cheap"drugs while the US
can't?

Careful with them attributions mate! I didn't write that!

sorry. I do my best but sometimes a boob slips through.