[liberallarry]

Obesity and poor health may have a certain corelation

True. It's a statistical correlation. But a very significant one. Ignore it at your peril.

I think this whole "terrible problem" with obeisity is one of those things that has been terribly overplayed...

If you've been around awhile the problem is hard to miss...:)

And as far as our health care system "failing", Larry, if liberals like you would work to get the damn government out of health care, you'd soon see that our "failing" system is pretty robust

I'm on the Board of Directors of a small rural hospital...struggling first-hand with the failing health care system. I don't think you know what you're talking about...although your argument has some merit. The health care system is failing because modern health care is terribly expensive. Most people can't afford it and never will. The government attempt to deal with that is floundering. They're dropping out now and the result is ever more people are without care. No one knows the solution but I think we are going to have to find an entirely different approach.

By the way, physicians returning from Cuba tell me they deliver care as good as ours at 1% of the cost. That ought to make your blood boil.

First of all, government should not be supplying food to anybody for any reason and second, I'm all for abolishing the public school system anyway and hope that the one good thing to come out of Maine governor King's (ironic name)crackpot laptop computer scheme for kids will, after they become computer literate, wake them up to the fact that they don't need the damn state for any purpose but road repair.

???

But of course, getting the goobers in goobermint out of anything wouldn't appeal to a nannie statist like you, would it?

HeHeHeHeHe.....

[metesky]

You're holding Cuba up as a model for how anything should be run, just about says it all about you, Larry.

If you're really involved in health care and are over a certain age, remember how (relatively) cheap health care was before the gub'mint got involved?

[Arioch7]

Liberallarry. You have made some interesting points. I must call you on your statement about Cuban Healthcare however.

Only the PARTY hospitals are good. I have read of Cuban Doctors coming to international conventions and being AMAZED that some think that Cuba has a superior health care system.

The average Cuban must supply his OWN blanket and bedding and most conditions are too crowded and unsanitary. It is a totalitarian regime for goodness sake! Try listening to some CUBAN Doctors that have escaped and came here. THAT would make your blood boil.

I dont know why liberals love Cuba so much. Would you love me if I enslaved you all and gave 1% of us excellant healthcare and forced 99% of the rest into a medical hellhole? Would I be COMPASSIONATE? :D

As for the schools... I am undecided on this one. I lean more to the individualist argument but you are correct, children are not adults. I will give it more thought.

[SamAdams76]

By the way, physicians returning from Cuba tell me they deliver care as good as ours at 1% of the cost. That ought to make your blood boil.

Yeah, and they all come back, don't they? Maybe they don't like being paid 1% of what they are worth either.