http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:03:27 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/25/194457.php#comment-71268 I work for a living. I have health insurance. I don't need no steenking Canuck drugs, mano. 71268@blogcritics.org Sat, 26 Jun 2004 00:03:27 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/25/194457.php#comment-71266 Wow, given that stunning display of wit and logic, I just give up. But if I catch you filling a prescription here, or smoking a cigar, well, you are getting a nice ride from the Saskatoon City Police Force while dressed in one of our native costumes. 71266@blogcritics.org Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:59:09 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/25/194457.php#comment-71259 Life expectancy is greater in the US than in Cuba. And the people are, you know, free and stuff too. 71259@blogcritics.org Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:42:50 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/25/194457.php#comment-71258 I don't really know how preventing access to a public good is seen as helping the public, but you people do strange things and worship dark tentacled old ones. But, what prevents profit from taking priority from health-care? Oh, wait, that's how it works. Since both Canada and Cuba have better public health-care than the USA, why don't you just change your name to start with "C:>" and then you can also soak Gates to fund the system? 71258@blogcritics.org Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:35:14 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/06/25/194457.php#comment-71251 There will always be two (or more) tiers to health care in any country with a modicum of free market values. The rich can afford things the poor can't. Even if those things are "free" for everyone, the rich will be willing to pay for a slightly higher quality of that product/service. This does not apply only to health care, by the way. It applies to anything. Let's say a government decides to give away cars for free, to every citizen over 18. Well, of course these cars are going to be pretty basic, standard models, like a Neon or an Elantra. And the rich won't want that, so they'll go out and buy a BMW or a Benz. Take education. In the US, everyone gets their "free" public school education. But it pretty much sucks. So, those who can afford it send their kids to "second tier" private schools. Etc. Only in a truly communistic nation would you be able to prevent, through state coersion, a second tier from developing. (Well, even in that case, it still might, on the black market.) Anyway, here's hoping the Liberals get their asses handed to them. :-] 71251@blogcritics.org Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:19:28 EDT