O/T: Knee Jerk

[Tim Daneliuk]

My views are certainly consistent, but I disagree that anyone could write my posts. A number of commonly seen posters here run out of words once they exit the domain of profanity ...

[Dave in Houston]

I guess Dickey Cheney is more liberal than I thought. He's fashioned one or two explanations to suit his situation(s).

Dave in Houston

[Larry Blanchard]

Funny, I thought the Christians, the Muslims, and the Buddhists had at least 3 different takes on that "absolute" you claim :-).

The ayatollahs believe in an "absolute" morality too. It's just different than yours.

[Larry Blanchard]

At least I sometimes add "OT" to a post :-).

But I'm intrigued by your list of names. It's interesting that most of us on the list, whether right or left, are using our correct names. A refreshing change from a lot of newsgroups where posters hide behind fake handles and hurl insults and profanities.

My conclusion is that we're not so bad after all.

Intelligence is an experiment that failed - G. B. Shaw

[Tim Daneliuk]

Excuse me, but socialists are not "bottom feeding" - they are blood sucking. Please get your imprecations right ;)

[Jack Stein]

Yeah, Tim and everyone else. Who has an opinion that changes to the point of being unpredictable?

Fairness has little to do with it. Opinions do not change with the wind, unless you're an air head.

[DGDevin]

I read an article recently on some of the folks funding opposition to health care reform and was absolutely gobsmacked to discover how many of them are owners or CEOs etc. of health care companies making nice fat profits with things just as they are. No, really, guys getting multi-million-dollar bonus checks at insurance companies and so on are opposed to the system being changed--who knew?

What cracks me up is folks upset at the notion of some govt. bureaucrat telling them which sort of health care they'll be allowed to have as if the same damn thing doesn't happen today with insurance company bureaucrats. I had an MRI awhile back and the hospital wouldn't give me an appointment until they'd heard from the insurance company. Ditto with appointments with specialists and so on, it all requires approval from some guy in a cubicle a thousand miles away. I've also had a medication a doctor wanted to prescribe for me disallowed by the insurance company in favor of a less expensive generic--so I didn't get what the doctor thinks is the best drug, but the one the insurance company is willing to pay for. And that's nothing compared to what some folks have to go through, like having an insurance company cancel coverage in the middle of chemo-therapy for breast cancer on the flimsy excuse that the woman under-reported her weight on her original application with the insurance company. For a start that sort of crap should be flat-out illegal.

[DGDevin]

No argument with that, other than "many of their constituents recognize as rampaging socialism." "Rampaging socialism" is easy to recognize, no need to convince anyone with half a brain... it is what it is...

[DGDevin]

There is also the pot-kettle-black nature of someone who himself participates in off-topic threads posting a list of off-topic posters with the recommendation they be kill-filed. Or is there an Irony Contest going I hadn't heard about?

[Lew Hodgett]

A friend of mine has health insurance provided by the employer as part of the compensation package.

Absolutely every doctor's appointment, lab test, etc, must have prior approval from the insurance company before it can even be scheduled.

This almost always costs several days/weeks delay before service is received.

Such is NOT the case with those on Medicare.

Sounds like maybe the government getting involved in a major issue like health care might just be a good thing.

Lew

[HeyBub]

Here's the difference: If you don't like the way your insurance company treats you - and your observation tends to imply that direction - you're free to change insurance companies!

What do you do if you don't like the way the GOVERNMENT health-care system treats you?

I guess you could move to Canada...

[Robatoy]

You think that is easy?

[DGDevin]

Horsecrap. My wife and I have employer-provided insurance, but if we left that coverage I'd be one of those "pre-existing condition" cases, in other words, shit out of luck. There was a documentary on PBS not long ago that mentioned the CEO of Kaiser Permanente is in the same boat--uninsurable outside company coverage. Got any facile advice on what people should do when in that situation, any easy slogans?

Where a major illness doesn't raise the specter of bankruptcy, yeah, wouldn't that be terrible.

[Tim Daneliuk]

At least when I "Contribute" it is not enabled by first stealing what my neighbor has worked for. You're drawn in to these conversations because you are desparate to defend your marauding and theft ... but there is none...

[Upscale]

Glad you framed Contribute in apostrophes, because you don't contribute shit. Unless of course, you count the whining you do as an art form. And as to defending myself, there's 30 million other Canadians that defend our healthcare, or most of them anyway. You? For a defence, you've got people like Miller who is a confirmed liar and kiss ass. The two of you should run off together and form your own country where whining and brown nosing actually pay something. Then at least you might obtain that wealth you claim is being stolen from you every day.

[HeyBub]

I dunno - I never tried it. But thousands of hippies managed it back during the Vietnam war and I just figured if a flea-bitten hippie could find north, most anybody else could too.

I could be wrong. We never really heard about the hippies that wandered off in another direction. I guess they were hit by cars or fell into the ocean or died of the munchies.

Like I say, I don't know.

[Steve Turner]

Heh, "died of the munchies" - that's a good one. :-)

[Elrond Hubbard]

"HeyBub" wrote in news:fuqdnVy8CO3GJSXXnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

But, somehow, that doesn't keep you from posting.

[J. Clarke]

Finding north is easy. Obtaining permanent residency is harder--the draft dodgers applied for political asylum but since there's no draft anymore that approach doesn't work.

[Upscale]

I suspect that most of them are actively living out their lives as our current crop of politicians.