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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

I think the long view is that you couldn't just cut out the insurance companies completely. They have too much invested in the system as it is to just let all that cash vanish from the table without a major fight. A fight that would have blown it all away, and then we'd still be completely at their profit-taking whims.

The longer view is that once everyone has skin in the game, meaning everyone is paying for health care at some level, and the costs are known, it's a far easier pitch to get people to question "why exactly do we need these profit-taking administrative enterprises that are just sticky-fingers holding onto large chunks of our health-care dollars, when we could do it all for ourselves with just a little extra government?"

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

cause I'm a decent fucking human being.

Are you, really?

I dunno, that shame-finger you're wagging at everyone looks a little dicey. I sure as heck don't know where it's been.

Anyway, let me be the first apologize on behalf of every single soul who doesn't agree with you 100% and/or behave exactly as you wish them to behave.

Especially let me apologize for the series of mocking comments made about George Bush by relatively anonymous strangers, attached to a blog-post put up on a corner of the internet that is many degrees of separation from the actual memorial service that occurred in Dallas in reality several hours ago.

Also, let me know if you need apologies for any terrible Youtube or Yahoo comments you run across, I'll be happy to do it, even if it takes the rest of my days.

I sincerely hope that my totally meaningful apologies will do some good for you.

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