[jazusamo]

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Medical Care Confusion
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A Tangled Web: Part II

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[Pearls Before Swine]

I read today that despite the O’s dropping popularity, 97% of the blacks polled approved of his performance. Dr. Sowell is clearly in the select minority!

[OneWingedShark]

>The idea of a “duty to die” has been making some headway in recent years around the fringes of the left.

Congress, the Executive branch, and the USSC should lead by example and take some cyanide-pills before they try/think of telling me I have a duty to die.

And if push comes to shove and they tell me “It’s your duty” then I’m going to take as many of them with me as I can... I mean, what are they going to do in that case, kill me?

[DugwayDuke]

“Insurance companies are another distraction and a scapegoat because they do not insure “pre-existing conditions.” Stop and think about it: If you could wait until you got sick to take out health insurance, why would you buy that insurance while you are well?”

Back during the days of debate on HillaryCare, the administrator of a health care provider in, I believe Oregon which requires providers to accept all pre-existing conditions, posted a letter he recieved from a young woman. The woman was writing to thank him for the fine care she’d received during her recent pregnancy and to cancel her health insurance. She stated that she’d signed up just as soon as she learned she was pregnant, was delighted with the care, but was cancelling now that she had given birth and was no longer in need of health insurance. But she did add, that if she became pregnant again, she’d certainly return to his company for health care.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

I use the phrase “The Macguffin”

From wiki......

“A MacGuffin (sometimes McGuffin) is “a plot element that catches the viewers’ attention or drives the plot of a work of fiction.”[1]

Sometimes, the specific nature of the MacGuffin is not important to the plot such that anything that serves as a motivation serves its purpose. The MacGuffin can sometimes be ambiguous, completely undefined, generic or left open to interpretation.

The MacGuffin is common in films, especially thrillers. Commonly, though not always, the MacGuffin is the central focus of the film in the first act, and later declines in importance as the struggles and motivations of characters play out. Sometimes the MacGuffin is all but forgotten by the end of the film.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin

Politicians use them all the time.

[LuvFreeRepublic]

Thanks for adding me to the ping list jazusamo. I love reading what Sowell writes. Plain, simple and hits the nail on the head.

[smoothsailing]

The idea of a "duty to die" has been making some headway in recent years around the fringes of the left.

DROP DEAD FOR OBAMA!!!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I love his brain” BUMP!

[Old Professer]

At 79, this is one old geezer Obama doesn’t really want to parse words with.

Sowell is a treasure.

[GOPJ]

...once you have bureaucrats empowered to decide what treatments you can and cannot get, they may well decide that money spent keeping some ... grandmother alive for a couple of more years could be better spent politically by enabling ten younger people to have acupuncture or visit a shrink.

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