Posted on 06/04/2015 4:05:03 AM PDT by markomalley
For those of use non-addicts who live in Appalachia-—no problemo.
Yes I stand corrected on the price. I was going by what I read at one time. That being said, I still don't want to see my tax dollars going to buy this for people who got it by knowingly engaging in foolish behavior (iv drug users specifically)
No, quite to the contrary, these guys and their ruined lives ain't even the point. The point is they're a public health hazard for the rest of us.
(Hint: Do you go into public places and use a door handle to open a door? Do you go to the supermarket and put your hands on a shopping cart? Do you uh, maintain personal hygiene, and wash your hands every time?)
Yes, good, we all thought so... now guess what?
Got a news flash fer ya. You don't get hep C from these activities.
Okay, I stand corrected, but you seem not to have a problem with Hep A or Hep B, or just plain ol’ revulsion.
hep A and B have vaccines available. I have a problem with junkies getting any sort of tax dollars. Drug use is a lifestyle choice, not a disaster forced on someone by bad luck or bad genetics.
Okay. I'd never be the one to defend junkies getting tax dollars...
It would probably save more tax dollars trying to prevent this stuff in the first place... not that that has been successful either.
I was appalled for a number of reasons. First there is the taxpayer burden of the transplant procedure cost - about $300,000 each time if I remember correctly. Second and far more important is the availability of organs for transplantation. So that this crack baby and his momma could milk the system, two other people on the transplant list died. Two livers were wasted on a black ghetto rat who WAS A VERY POOR CANDIDATE FOR TRANSPLANT SURGERY BECAUSE OF LIFESTYLE and ended up dying anyway (fortunately before a third liver was wasted). Third because the author of the article thought the solution was to throw more money on dee baby momma - obviously a waste of skin.
A couple of months ago a black yout was killed when he wrecked a stolen car while fleeing from police. The ironic thing is that he was the recipient of a liver transplant that he should not have gotten. He was initially rejected because of his criminal lifestyle, but one of dee local revins made such a stink that he was maumaued on to the top of the list. Again what happens when politics determines who gets resources.
I'll get off my soapbox now.
“because of HEPA laws have no idea if they’re infected or not. “
You probably mean HIPPA.
HEPA is a filter on your vacuum cleaner.
Right - sorry about that
When I was young, if you contracted a Sexually Transmitted Disease, your Doctor was required to report it to the Local Health Department.
You were interviewed and anyone you had Sex with was contacted so they could receive Treatment, which kept STD’s at bay.
When the AIDS Epidemic hit, that went by the wayside because Liberals didn’t want to “label” AIDS as a primarily Gay Disease. PC over Public Health and we never looked back.
Oh yeah, I have actually talked to People who actually believe that Reagan is responsible for the AIDS Epidemic.
Unfortunately, people who ten years ago may have been rock-solid conservatives are falling onto the lower class (through no fault of their own), and I suspect many have leaned left as a result. The lack of jobs (and the ripple effect where education won’t pay off) are killing a generation of young Americans; they see people twenty years older than them in jobs that are no longer available for the most part, and it rankles them.
Financially it was, but it was an anomaly; we had the only surviving manufacturing base after WWII, and the GI Bill gave many a chance at higher education that would never have had it without it.
OK, but does that justify turning into a junkie? Don't get me wrong, I am fully libertarian on drugs, in that if you want to kill yourself via that route go for it, but likewise if you OD, I have exactly zero sympathy and I'm not willing to pay a cent to help you out of a hole that you dug for yourself. One (that I know of) of the people I went to HS with went that route, and talk about a whiney self pitying worthless a$$hole. I don't know what happened to him eventually. I do know that stuff would disappear when he was around.
I’m not a libertarian at all when it comes to drugs; I know that addicts will kill you for the money to get them (it isn’t “victimless”). I’m saying that they are self-medicating for depression/absolute hopelessness. Young people today are more accustomed to the Third World-style economy we have; other people who grew up surrounded by opportunity are watching their dreams fall apart as jobs disappear, destroying a way of life they had often studied and worked very hard to attain.
It is no accident that they are talking about installing a “jumper net” on the George Washington Bridge; the NYC metro area is ground zero for broken dreams. Countless people have been walking in front of trains and such for years now; they don’t believe it will ever get better.
I wonder what drug they used before they started Oxycontin?
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