[itsahoot]

A single payer system ONLY in that he wants to see everyone covered as I do.

I can remember when there was no healthcare if you had no insurance unless of course you had money. You could almost always get in to see a local doc that charged three to five dollars for an office visit some even issued prescriptions when $10.00 prescriptions were out of reach for many patients.

We simply could not afford to get sick so we just pretended we weren't. If turpentine or coal oil didn't fix a cut, we toughed it out until it healed, usually badly. Many here will have no clue what I am talking about.

[dfwgator]

We simply could not afford to get sick so we just pretended we weren't. If turpentine or coal oil didn't fix a cut, we toughed it out until it healed, usually badly

"And that's the way it was and we liked it!"