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I find it interesting that you refer to human beings in need of medical care as "parasites".

I'm not sure the Hippocratic Oath (or basic human decency) differentiates between those who can and those who cannot "pay" for medical treatment.



wrong again, you're getting good at that. I am referring to lawyers of course. Isn't that typical of a liberal, get boxed into a corner and then pulls the hate card. No, I don't hate the poor, I wouldn't mind helping them out, I'd just like to see it cost me as little as possible. Typical liberals like you think simply throwing money at it will solve it. Problem is it's my money.



Sorry, my mistake. In reference to lawyers, "Parasite" is a perfectly acceptable term.

I do need to correct a misconception on your part, however. I am not a Liberal. Until this last election I was a registered Republican (even though I did vote for Perot in 92).

The Republican Party, as a whole, has just swung too far to the Right for me to stomach any longer. And when religion based thinking is openly touted as the guiding principle for government decision making and policy, violating the constitutional separation of church and state, I had to get out.

I would consider myself either a Liberal-Republican or a Conservative-Democrat depending on the circumstances. For example; I support both the 2nd Amendment and a woman's right to choose, with reasonable limits placed on both. I think this places me in the midst of about 70% of the American population and not with the 30% at either extreme.

But as an empathetic human being I do not believe that anyone should stand around and do nothing while another person is sick, injured, or starving.

This does not mean that I condone throwing unending amount of money at a lost cause, say like an unpopular war justified with dubious and unsubstantiated facts, but how is it that we, as a country, spend more per capita on health care and get less for that money than any other industrialized nation?

And, of course, there are always going to be those who would "play" the system. These unscrupulous individuals need to be rooted out and suffer the consequences. That's what a "check and balance" system is supposed to accomplish, but only if it is implemented (unlike what the SEC was supposed to be doing when Enron, Madoff, AIG, etc. where playing their system).

A health care system whose primary decision making paradigm is based on maximizing profit is not what the medical profession should be based on.

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