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   Pink Freud to Larry   
   Re: OT : Poll -- Type 1 Diabetes   
   05 Jun 10 01:21:00   
   
   XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism   
   From: somewhere@here.com   
      
   "Larry"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns9D8DBBD0BDEB6noonehomecom@74.209.131.13...   
   > "Pro-Humanist FREELOVER"  wrote in news:hubho0   
   > $2rf$1@news.eternal-september.org:   
   >   
   >> Type 1 Diabetes Poll   
   >>   
   >> 1) If you had to describe type 1 diabetes   
   >>     in one sentence, what would you say?   
   >   
   > Medical bureaucracy cash cow to rake in money from....   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 2) What causes type 1 diabetes?   
   >   
   > Hypocondriacs that have to go to a doctor 3 times a week and MUST have   
   > something wrong with them, no matter what.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 3) How is type 1 diabetes treated?   
   >   
   > With placebo tablets in important looking pharma bottles that cost $5.69   
   > per tablet prescribed QID (4 times a day) to keep pharmacists in new   
   > cars.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 4) What risks are inherent in having the   
   >>     condition?   
   >   
   > The STRESS of "having something" and telling every person you meet all   
   > about it, every time you meet them, as they are telling you, so proudly,   
   > of their last "operation" or doctor's visit, USUALLY KILLS THEM, not the   
   > non-existant medical condition the doctor constantly tells them they   
   > have to keep the insurance money rolling in to make the payments on his   
   > beach house, golf club, new Mercedes sedan, 40 ft sailing yacht and his   
   > trophy wife's 8 credit cards.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 5) What risks are inherent in treating   
   >>     the condition?   
   >   
   > If untreated, it remains the same, except for the lack of doctor cash   
   > flow and piles of insurance forms decimating the forests.  If treated,   
   > the doctor/snakeoil salesman gets a new beach house, 2 new cars, puts   
   > his kids through medical school so THEY can fleece the new wave of   
   > hypocondriacs the current crop is breeding to perpetuate the fraud.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 6) What treatments are available for   
   >>     the condition?   
   >   
   > $25 deductable full coverage medical insurance.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 7) Is type 1 diabetes curable?   
   >   
   > Medicine never cures anyone since Dr Sauk fucked up a perfectly good,   
   > ongoing, cash cow with his stupid Polio vaccine which ruined a whole   
   > industry.  (Notice how in 27 years there has been no HIV vaccine to   
   > obliterate HIV noone has ever isolated or has a picture of.)   
   >   
   > How much money has the Jerry Lewis Telethon collected for Jerry and the   
   > medical fraud establishment that has never cured a single child of   
   > Muscular Dystrophy?  Billions?  Trillions?  I'm 64 and saw my first one   
   > as a little kid with a black and white TV in the 1950's!   
   >   
   > How many people have been cured by the March of Dimes, Lung Association,   
   > Heart Association or (name the medical charity of your choice)?  NONE!   
   > We cannot AFFORD to cure disease!  What are you, CRAZY!  Millions of   
   > medical people are living off it!   
   >   
      
   All of the above is pure speculation, save the rant about diabetes which is   
   demonstrably wrong.   
      
   For someone evidently so anti-medicine, you are certainly wearing a very odd   
   sig.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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