My point is that 1)a lot of people arguing against health care reform are terribly afraid that they will have to pay so that people somewhere doing something they don't approve of will get care and 2) a lot of the things they think are frivolous expenses are not.

Yup.

yeah, I don't really approve of old men getting insurance to cover viagra. where are the people protesting that?

We need a Hot Panel.

yeah, I don't really approve of old men getting insurance to cover viagra. where are the people protesting that?

We need a Hot Panel.

Pretty sure I knew someone who put off getting something checked out for lack of insurance. She's dead now.

I don't carry my cell phone. It pretty much lives on a shelf in the front room. I did carry it on the trip, where it wouldn't work, but that's just because I forgot to leave it in the car. It was rather funny. I've gone into work on a weekend to take care of something I saw checking my work email, but mostly I don't check it from home. I've never gotten a work call at home. But my job is like that. There's very little that can't wait until morning. It's not rocket science...oh. Well, mostly not.

And I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be dead in Canada, England & France.

Tell it to Stephen Hawking.

Which, hey, you could do. Because he's also not dead.

I think an important point is being missed. If someone dies with private or no insurance, then they just die. If they die with socialized health care, then they become the undead and prey upon the living. This is why all vampires originate from Europe. Think about it.

Edited to make FCC acceptable.

I've gotten so spoiled by texting. My cousin was here for the weekend, from Toronto, and has no texting plan. And we were constantly having to do BART pick-ups, etc, which required calling for any updates/changes that could have been handled with one word via text. I can't believe how quickly I've gotten used to texting and how much more I loathe making calls.

Huh. It makes me crazy to exchange 6 texts (while being charged for each one) when a 30 second phone call would do.

Think about tit.

Heh heh heh....

Huh. It makes me crazy to exchange 6 texts (while being charged for each one) when a 30 second phone call would do.

This.

2) a lot of the things they think are frivolous expenses are not.

I have heard a number of right-wing rants against cell phones in the hands of people they perceive as wastrels. It doesn't seem to occur to them that cell phones can be pay as you go, and therefore they're the only phone they can afford. Also, not having a phone compounds the job search a thousandfold.

There may be young, single people out there who are spending their money frivolously rather than pay for health insurance. They will also be extremely cheap to insure and their being insured will cut the costs of running emergency rooms and funding treatment conditions that cost a lot more because they didn't get earlier treatment.

My plan with Kaiser was $550 a month, but that plan went up to $800 my last birthday, so I had to go to a plan with a high deductible. It's not pretty. There are almost no meaningful dental plans available to freelancers.