NP: Happy Easter

Ian Livingston igrlivingston at gmail.com
Sun Apr 4 13:04:13 CDT 2010


I have never had health insurance and I plan never to pay for a
service I will not use. When medicine comes out of the dark ages of
capitalism, it may be possible I'd consider going in to have a doctor
confirm something I already know, but I still wouldn't let 'em cut me
open. Never trust a man waving a knife at you. And drugs? No thanks!
Had my share, know what they do. Comes my time, soon enough, I want a
clear mind. I am no stranger to pain, I can live with it and, time
comes, die with it. There are enough people on the planet that I will
be missed only by a few, who, too, will soon enough pass into the
fabled vacuum of history. If the government wants to tax somebody to
pay for health care, that tax should be on families who choose to have
more than two children. One, even better. Life is important, it should
be cherished, lived. It is not something we can for long greedily
claim as our own. We are participants, not owners. Visitors. Those
species we in our self-serving notions of superiority daily wipe out
of existence, or torture to develop products to increase our
overweening grasp on the ecosphere, have every "right to life" we
have.....Put down the keyboard, Igor. Step away from the rant..... If
folks want to support the medical cartels, it's their choice, same as
with all the other ones.


On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 12:16 PM,  <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Baby steps in the right direction would be great if the insurance industry didn't have batteries of lawyers devoted to tripping the baby.  There's no law that the insurance companies can't find massive loopholes in.  Six-month waiting periods for the terminally ill.  Special coverage policies for the newly insured that give them the identical coverage as regular policy owners - except reimbursing doctors at a much lower rate so that no doctors will treat these new patients.  Etc., etc.  I also had Empire Blue Cross insurance when 10 years ago, I had several hospitalizations which the insurance refused to cover.  I was forced to go bankrupt.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>>From: Henry Musikar <scuffling at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Apr 4, 2010 11:35 AM
>>To: 'Pynchon Liste' <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: RE: NP: Happy Easter
>>
>>Without the watering down of the bill, it wouldn't have passed, fewer people would have insurance, and there would be absolutely no regulation.  Aren't baby steps better than nothing?
>>
>>Henry Mu
>>Sr. IT Analyst
>>http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Laura
>>Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2010 11:24 AM
>>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>>Subject: Re: NP: Happy Easter
>>
>>We have Aetna insurance.  It's absolutely horrible: extremely expensive for a family of five, high copays, long lists of things they won't cover, does everything possible to prevent people from seeing doctors, bureaucratic to the extreme.  And now we're stuck with it, thanks to those Democratic whores who presided over one of the most disgraceful sellouts in recent memory.
>>
>>Uh, and Happy Easter to you.
>>
>>Laura
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Henry Musikar
>>>
>>>And a Happy, healthcared year!
>>>
>>>http://www.facebook.com/p.php?i=591754869&k=5VD23Z643T21VFCDUC2VPVVSP3AF3Y&oid=1370419295051
>>>
>>>Henry Mu
>>>Sr. IT Analyst
>>>http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20/
>>>
>>
>
>



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