Life A.B. (After Baby)
Wife: "You think we'll have sex again?"
Posted at 11:00 PM
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File under: Things I never imagined I would see in my lifetime.
So I'm writing this book and the subjects of this book
take me to lunch at this fancy restaurant. I glance over at the lunch buffet and
I see this guy looking it over...
Posted at 11:25 PM
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Continuing the debate...
The comments posted in response to my recent entries
about socialized medicine have been divided into two
camps.
There are those who believe that
somehow healthcare and insurance is an issue of personal responsibility. They
seem to follow the line that any socialized program would be a violation of the
basic tenants of our free market system. They remark that they don't want the
government taking more of their hard earned money to fund the care of someone
else. This camp also points to other socialized medical systems as failures
(although no one can name one). Some people from this camp have made comments
that were knee jerk reactions, which had no actual basis of fact...and failed to
do the research to back those statements.
Then there is the other camp. These
folks believe that the health and welfare of our citizens, is as important as
any other civil right. They believe that in a civilized society, the government
should progress and do more to advance the well being of it's citizens, instead
of just maintaining the status quo. Also interesting is that many of the folks
who support this argument, actually live in countries where they provide this so
called horrible socialized medicine.
I
believe the first camp:
a) can afford
medical insurance (I can't).
b) have never
experienced a catastrophic loss of income or insurance (I
have).
c) have never seen their insurance
company tell them or a loved one they can't have a certain treatment (I
have).
d) never faced losing everything they
owned due to an illness (I have).
e) never
taken care of a terminally ill family member for a year and watched their
insurance run out (I have).
In the
tradition of beating a dead horse (my last entry on this subject)...but
continuing a strong and exciting argument...I have some more to
say...
Posted at 01:35 PM
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