1/2/2009 5:16:44 PM

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"weed makes people lazy and stupid. "

I'd almost argue stupid and lazy people ultimately end up spending their free time smoking pot

1/2/2009 5:49:42 PM

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"Would it help you any if I remarked upon the fact that I am strongly opposed to government-run healthcare? Look, I don't think anybody should be on the hook for paying for anybody else's vices - and that includes every legal vice under the sun. "

you know some people actually just get sick...right?

1/3/2009 2:54:16 AM

Just yesterday I read an economics paper which in my mind proved conclusively that the health insurance market does not operate competitively. It turns out, what firms are charged by insurance providers to provide health insurance to employees is predominantly determined by the companies ability to pay, not what another insurance provider is willing to charge. This just proved to me what I already expected, that insurers have monkeyed state governments into enforcing a state-wide cartel. As this was the only possible result of corporatist government intrusion, the current system must be scrapped; whatever we replace it with, it must be scrapped. A purely government run system would work substantially better.

Sure, we would all be substantially better off if we could just break up the cartel, but I accept that is never going to happen. As such, nationalize the system; turn hospitals into government contractors operating under a five year plan. It must be better than this.

1/3/2009 10:17:18 AM

and I don't see why government can't charge a higher tax care rate for those who live more at risk life styles, the same way insurance providers do now

1/3/2009 4:05:12 PM

and I don't see why we can't fund the entire health care system by an extra tax on McDonalds' revenue

1/5/2009 10:26:14 AM

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/yourmoney/story/7788F79C1BEA1C52862575360005B4AD?OpenDocument

1/13/2009 3:36:57 PM

Easy solution to that: don't speed.

1/13/2009 5:12:48 PM

^
lol...



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1/13/2009 6:49:10 PM