Fairweather

What can I say? Hanging from shiny metal hooks while eating donuts and smoking cigarettes just aint my thing. Of course, some folks enjoy leading up the aforementioned shiny metal hook ladder more than others too. But that not be you from what I gather.

Nevermind the people there aren't free to express a political opinion in public--or participate in a real election. No nosotros nessesitamos librertad. Tenamos libre assistencia medica!

Give em what they want vs Prole knows best. No doubt we'll all be eating at Michelle Obama's salad bar in your new world.

Hard to discern what, exactly, you're trying to say enamored as you are with your own prose. Some stuff is hard for some people. No truer words were ever uttered. Ironically, the Evil Future Health Care Resource Sucking Big Man's tribal unit Big Man sucking Evil Healthcare Resources tribal unit boasts one the most productive home farm and gardens this prosetologist's ever seen. Both front and back yard are positively lousy with chickens, kale, and all other manner of horticultural nicotine cleansing agents. Really, one shouldn't worry too much about the Big Man - his job in life is to suffer so that the rest of us may be free. His campfire in the cave will be a good memory for sure. Some of his Hood trips too. But he'll regret the smokes during his mucho expensivo treatments and his final months of bed rest for sure. This story I've seen with my own eyes--and I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Not even you, Doughnut Guy.

Hard to discern what, exactly, you're trying to say enamored as you are with your own prose.

None. And neither, it turns out, does Obamacare. Smokers pay a lot more.

Dogooders: trans fats today, smokes tomorrow. (Oops, I almost forgot; there's that whole tax revenue/uncollected social security/complicity model of government standing in the way of cigarette bannination.)

You think? maybe it's because in your mind there are only two options for people with stage IV lung cancer and both involve letting them die? I think you're doing it wrong Reading comprehension, Rob. Try to focus. How much should your bureaucrats spend to keep Ivan alive? And remember, this was a lifestyle choice--and getting Ivan to his 80th b-day isn't gonna be cheap! What a weird world you've invented in which healthcare is withheld if the illness is "their fault" -- is it lonely over there? It's not my invention--it's yours. Good intentions gone bad. Seems to be a common theme with you lefties.

Sorry, I reserve those for serious questions! Naw, you just don't want to answer it because you know your view has a serious flaw that you can't navigate. Democrats: simple solutions for simple minds. You think? maybe it's because in your mind there are only two options for people with stage IV lung cancer and both involve letting them die? I think you're doing it wrong Reading comprehension, Rob. Try to focus. How much should your bureaucrats spend to keep Ivan alive? And remember, this was a lifestyle choice--and getting Ivan to his 80th b-day isn't gonna be cheap!

Sorry, I reserve those for serious questions! Naw, you just don't want to answer it because you know your view has a serious flaw that you can't navigate. Democrats: simple solutions for simple minds.

We should do what Bahrain does and feed him to the sharks, that's why their life expectancy is so high. Duh! Try to follow along How about a serious answer?

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. (and healthcare and food and shelter and transportation and employment and...)

You're worried about homelessness? Good God, man, there are people out there with substandard health insurance!

So, let's say your big gooey dream of single payer is finally realized here in Amerika. How much should this fictitious society spend to squeeze an extra year of life out of, say, a 78 year old guy like Ivan who has chain smoked all his life and now has stage 4 lung cancer? $250,000? $4 million? No limit? Sorry, but this is not tenable. And at the end of the day, is having a government bureaucrat make the final decision on Ivan's fate any less horrifying to you than letting the soulless invisible hand of the market make the same choice?

For God's sake, haven't you been watching Storage Wars?

Depends on who you define as poor. I'll bet that American poor are every bit the consumers of "frivolous bullshit" as any. Think WalMart.

Jay, don't bother them with facts while they're trying to steer the bus down the road to serfdom.

And don't forget, every much less human is good added benefit for environment!

Oh my, would ya look at the time... Shall I clock out now, or stay on for an extra shift?

Well, without TTK around to put your bowl out for you and stroke your belly from time to time I doubt you were going to last very much longer anyhow.

WOW! This is probably completely unique to the U.S. and obviously a major cause of our outrageously expensive health care system. Quite frankly, it mostly is. You seriously disagree?

True that. A big part of the problem is that we all think we're owed 80-90 years no matter the lifestyle we choose. Lifestyles aren't chosen, they're cultivated. I agree with this too--mostly.

Really? Is that a big part of the problem? I guess other western nations don't have this belief, and this is why their health and health care is better? Interesting. I had no idea that this was such a significant cause of our antiquated health care system. You should write an article on this, I don't think people have identified this as such a large factor. I bet between this and malpractice reform there would be no problems at all! I guess it'd be too much to ask a lap dog to stop yapping. I have no idea what you're trying to say--probably because you don't either. In any event, take a look at % of healthcare expenditures on persons in their last two years of life. Or, like prole said, big pharma's got a pill/treatment that might help you squeeze a few extra months outta that old abused carcass. But it's gonna cost you...

True that. A big part of the problem is that we all think we're owed 80-90 years no matter the lifestyle we choose.

Not sure how this is relevant at all, but yes, I've traveled throughout Mexico, Central, and South America and, of course, Canada. No, I've never had to use their medical systems in any manner. What's your point? BTW, you now owe me a direct answer to a future question of my choosing.