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House passed health care reform...
"H the K" wrote in message
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On 11/11/09 12:42 AM, I am Tosk wrote:
In ,
says...
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:31:02 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
wrote:
I was discussing this with someone else last night and we have another
interesting statistic to throw in the fray.
Heart disease in the leading cause of death in the US but we also lead
the world in obesity. The numbers when compared to the other countries
we use as models for the successes of public medicine are striking.
Chew on this and tell me spending a trillion on insurance will make us
healthier.
Percentage of citizens who are clinically defined as being obese
I'm no expert re the methodology. I don't have the time to look right
now,
but let's just assume it is as you say.
In any case, the latter part of your comment... "spending a trillion"
is not
actually spending, since the criteria is deficit neutral, which it
pretty
much is currently (FYI, I don't think it needs to be deficit neutral,
but
that's not the issue/question). It would actually save money compared
to the
high cost of doing nothing. You think a trillion is bad? Just wait if
we do
nothing.
Anyone who really thinks this is deficit neutral also believes the
post office is self sustaining.
Nobody believes it will be, although we do have a bunch of liars out
there that are still saying it will...
Why would this concern you? You are unemployed. You don't pay taxes.
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~~ Snerk ~~
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