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   XPost: alt.politics.democrats   
   From: bliss@sfo.com   
      
   Pete nospam Zakel wrote:   
   > In article <9cf33f58-1f3e-4752-a259-fb4edc57daa3@w36g2000yqm.g   
   oglegroups.com> Fred Oinka  writes:   
   >   
   >> The government has no business in the health care business.   
   >> It's that simple.   
   >   
   > So if someone is sick and has no insurance and cannot afford treatment, we   
   > should not treat them, correct?   
   >   
   > So if someone is in an accident and breaks an arm and cannot afford the   
   > emergency room care, he/she should self-treat?   
   >   
   > And what about the situation where someone has a communicable disease?  In   
   > that case not treating them is a danger to others who may get the disease.   
   >   
   > Also, insufficient treatment can result (and has resulted) in mutations that   
   > are resistant to treatment.  Not treating sufficiently then is also a danger   
   > to others.   
   >   
   > Note that government is there to provide for everyone, not just for those who   
   > can afford it.  If you want government out, then you want toll roads, toll   
   > sidewalks, no more guaranteed right-of-ways, etc.  If you happen to be   
   > surrounded by private propery and cannot afford to pay tolls, you just sit   
   > down and die.  Is that really the kind of country you want?   
   >   
   > -Pete Zakel   
   >  (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
   >   
   > "Repel them.  Repel them.  Induce them to relinquish the spheroid."   
   >   
   > 	-Indiana University fans' chant for their perennially bad football team   
      
   	Health Services for everyone is a Public Health measure, if the   
   person   
   with a broken arm is not treated properly he/she might become a   
   public   
   charge. . Strange things can happen to people even those who try   
   to take   
   every reasonable step to safeguard their health.  There are plenty of   
   diseases with no cures and no easy tests to determine the cause.   
     That   
   why the TV show "House" is popular.  House himself will be in a   
   mental   
   treatment facility in the coming season and that should be   
   enlightening   
   to the viewers.   
      
   	You want to know what life was like before anti-biotics read   
   Philip Wylie's "Generation of Vipers".  The people who stand in   
   the way   
   of access to treatment for the poor and low income middle class folks   
   are a lot like that, a generation of vipers spewing poison words   
   at the   
   attempts the government is making.   
   	   
   	Wylie was a racist but he clearly saw that people of all classes   
   needed care if for no other reason than the Public Health.   
      
   	later   
   	bliss - whose father died of a ruptured appendix in 1939.  By 1949   
   the anti-biotics would have been available and he would have lived   
   into a crusty old age.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)