Here we go...Health Care 'Reform' passes

[D-Mack]

Re: Here we go...Health Care 'Reform' passes

You forgot

6) Reduce level of care to 19th century standards.

7) Invest in leeches.

No insurance? Come on.:rolleyes: I'm going to assume you were half joking.

Modern medicine is expensive. It also is very effective. If you think almost every ailment known to man is going to go away because people eat better and excercise then you are naive. I assure you people in the 19th century ate plenty of veggies and got lots of exercise, with little sugar or transfats. Yet they died like flies when some little bug that would be considered minor today came along. Or do you think it won't happen to you? Or you think you won't care and are willing to just take a pain pill and die. Or you think you'd be fine just letting your grandchild die of a easily treatable disease, because no care is available, because nobody wanted to pay into an insurance plan IN ADVANCE, so no hospital was built?

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They were just figuring out how to wash their hands in the 19th century

Despite various publications of results where hand-washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_S...rous_poisoning