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The 2nd “retelling” of Nikki White and how an educated 32 year old could die in the US from lupus complications due to the difficulty of getting healthcare.

Any easy way to analyze her missteps?

As for France, here’s a commonly quoted stat:

France spends 11 percent of its gross domestic product on health care and insures everyone and the United States spends 16.5 percent of G.D.P. and leaves 20 percent of adults under 65 uninsured.

Now let’s match it with longevity:

France is 80.98
US is 78.11

Less GDP for more longevity that includes both private and public options? Why not take a look at it?

Now to accomplish what France does, we’ll probably need tort reform to reduce the insurance premiums that doctors face.

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I’ll respectfully disagree with Allan’s fear assertion:

And people wonder why intelligent discourse is at an all-time low. Fear. Fear of being labeled politically incorrect or a racist or a sexist or an ageist. Fear of not getting the proper nomenclature down or not using the right symbols, tropes, icons, memes or rubric.

Intelligent discourse is at an all time low because the internet and new media have given voice to a lot of uneducated/thoughtless people who think that their opinions are actually worth something (is that a sufficiently unPC way to phrase it).

Why would I want to argue about abortion with someone that doesn’t know what a blastocyte is? How do you argue evolution with someone that doesn’t know anything about genetics or radio-carbon dating?

[Dukehorn]

I’ll respectfully disagree with Allan’s fear assertion:

And people wonder why intelligent discourse is at an all-time low. Fear. Fear of being labeled politically incorrect or a racist or a sexist or an ageist. Fear of not getting the proper nomenclature down or not using the right symbols, tropes, icons, memes or rubric.

Intelligent discourse is at an all time low because the internet and new media have given voice to a lot of uneducated/thoughtless people who think that their opinions are actually worth something (is that a sufficiently unPC way to phrase it).

Why would I want to argue about abortion with someone that doesn’t know what a blastocyte is? How do you argue evolution with someone that doesn’t know anything about genetics or radio-carbon dating?

[Dukehorn]

I’ll respectfully disagree with Allan’s fear assertion:

And people wonder why intelligent discourse is at an all-time low. Fear. Fear of being labeled politically incorrect or a racist or a sexist or an ageist. Fear of not getting the proper nomenclature down or not using the right symbols, tropes, icons, memes or rubric.

Intelligent discourse is at an all time low because the internet and new media have given voice to a lot of uneducated/thoughtless people who think that their opinions are actually worth something (is that a sufficiently unPC way to phrase it).

Why would I want to argue about abortion with someone that doesn’t know what a blastocyte is? How do you argue evolution with someone that doesn’t know anything about genetics or radio-carbon dating?

[Dukehorn]

I’ll respectfully disagree with Allan’s fear assertion:

And people wonder why intelligent discourse is at an all-time low. Fear. Fear of being labeled politically incorrect or a racist or a sexist or an ageist. Fear of not getting the proper nomenclature down or not using the right symbols, tropes, icons, memes or rubric.

Intelligent discourse is at an all time low because the internet and new media have given voice to a lot of uneducated/thoughtless people who think that their opinions are actually worth something (is that a sufficiently unPC way to phrase it).

Why would I want to argue about abortion with someone that doesn’t know what a blastocyte is? How do you argue evolution with someone that doesn’t know anything about genetics or radio-carbon dating?

[Dukehorn]

I’ll respectfully disagree with Allan’s fear assertion:

And people wonder why intelligent discourse is at an all-time low. Fear. Fear of being labeled politically incorrect or a racist or a sexist or an ageist. Fear of not getting the proper nomenclature down or not using the right symbols, tropes, icons, memes or rubric.

Intelligent discourse is at an all time low because the internet and new media have given voice to a lot of uneducated/thoughtless people who think that their opinions are actually worth something (is that a sufficiently unPC way to phrase it).

Why would I want to argue about abortion with someone that doesn’t know what a blastocyte is? How do you argue evolution with someone that doesn’t know anything about genetics or radio-carbon dating?

[Dukehorn]

The suggestion that all internet conversations will eventually boil down to Hilter is called Godwin’s Law (well I’m paraphrasing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Went to school with Mike, he’s a smart fellow.

Of course, this is most basic corollary (which will tell you who should be losing the healthcare debate).

By 2007, The Economist had declared that “a good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument.”

[Dukehorn]

The suggestion that all internet conversations will eventually boil down to Hilter is called Godwin’s Law (well I’m paraphrasing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Went to school with Mike, he’s a smart fellow.

Of course, this is most basic corollary (which will tell you who should be losing the healthcare debate).

By 2007, The Economist had declared that “a good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument.”

[Dukehorn]

The suggestion that all internet conversations will eventually boil down to Hilter is called Godwin’s Law (well I’m paraphrasing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Went to school with Mike, he’s a smart fellow.

Of course, this is most basic corollary (which will tell you who should be losing the healthcare debate).

By 2007, The Economist had declared that “a good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument.”

[Dukehorn]

The suggestion that all internet conversations will eventually boil down to Hilter is called Godwin’s Law (well I’m paraphrasing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Went to school with Mike, he’s a smart fellow.

Of course, this is most basic corollary (which will tell you who should be losing the healthcare debate).

By 2007, The Economist had declared that “a good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument.”

[Dukehorn]

The suggestion that all internet conversations will eventually boil down to Hilter is called Godwin’s Law (well I’m paraphrasing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Went to school with Mike, he’s a smart fellow.

Of course, this is most basic corollary (which will tell you who should be losing the healthcare debate).

By 2007, The Economist had declared that “a good rule in most discussions is that the first person to call the other a Nazi automatically loses the argument.”

[Dukehorn]

COBRA is very expensive. Don’t plan on using it when you’re umemployed for long.

As for this “debate”, I always wonder why people arguing against universial healthcare always manage to ignore the children.

Is it your contention that kids should be punished for the “crime” that their parents are poor or unemployed? Remember that kid that died from his cavities in DC (two years ago) because his mom couldn’t afford dental care. Is that what we’re saying “tough luck”?

How is this scenario any different than saying to the child of a sexual predator “tough luck kid, you’re born to a sexual deviant and deserved to be abused”.

Right? The logic is as follows “tough luck kid, you’re born to parents without health insurance and deserve what you get”.

Compassionate my arse……

[Dukehorn]

COBRA is very expensive. Don’t plan on using it when you’re umemployed for long.

As for this “debate”, I always wonder why people arguing against universial healthcare always manage to ignore the children.

Is it your contention that kids should be punished for the “crime” that their parents are poor or unemployed? Remember that kid that died from his cavities in DC (two years ago) because his mom couldn’t afford dental care. Is that what we’re saying “tough luck”?

How is this scenario any different than saying to the child of a sexual predator “tough luck kid, you’re born to a sexual deviant and deserved to be abused”.

Right? The logic is as follows “tough luck kid, you’re born to parents without health insurance and deserve what you get”.

Compassionate my arse……

[Dukehorn]

COBRA is very expensive. Don’t plan on using it when you’re umemployed for long.

As for this “debate”, I always wonder why people arguing against universial healthcare always manage to ignore the children.

Is it your contention that kids should be punished for the “crime” that their parents are poor or unemployed? Remember that kid that died from his cavities in DC (two years ago) because his mom couldn’t afford dental care. Is that what we’re saying “tough luck”?

How is this scenario any different than saying to the child of a sexual predator “tough luck kid, you’re born to a sexual deviant and deserved to be abused”.

Right? The logic is as follows “tough luck kid, you’re born to parents without health insurance and deserve what you get”.

Compassionate my arse……

[Dukehorn]

COBRA is very expensive. Don’t plan on using it when you’re umemployed for long.

As for this “debate”, I always wonder why people arguing against universial healthcare always manage to ignore the children.

Is it your contention that kids should be punished for the “crime” that their parents are poor or unemployed? Remember that kid that died from his cavities in DC (two years ago) because his mom couldn’t afford dental care. Is that what we’re saying “tough luck”?

How is this scenario any different than saying to the child of a sexual predator “tough luck kid, you’re born to a sexual deviant and deserved to be abused”.

Right? The logic is as follows “tough luck kid, you’re born to parents without health insurance and deserve what you get”.

Compassionate my arse……

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