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(...) Something is going to have to happen for health care. I'm not sure it isn't too long before we start having experiences like Mike's even with a health plan. It seems that health care is getting more and more inaccessible as there becomes more (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Mike Stanley wrote: <snip> (...) <snipped horror story about Mike's VA hospital experience) You certainly get my sympathy for your terrible experience in the VA hospital. I have heard similar stories about retirement homes and mental health (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Have you ever had the pleasure of enjoying government-run healthcare? I sure hope not. I have. My disability entitles me to care at VA facilities around the country and a few years ago, after my college fund ran out and Rachael and I were (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I am also fortunate in that regard because I work for the State of North Carolina. Now, I live in a small town in the Appalachian mountains of NC that just happens to have a university in it which isthe area's largest employer. However, (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Gosh, I've found that insurance is quite affordable. What's the scoop? Oh, maybe it's because I've chosen an employer with a good package of bennies. (...) I thought government was here to perpetuate itself at the expense of the rest of us. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Speaking as someone who has had to chip in and help with funeral expenses for someone who was too irresponsible to take care of them for himself while alive, I can attest to that. (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Unfortunately, many people are not in a position to pay the outrageous premiums insurance companies require. And even if people do want to pay, insurance companies get to pick and choose who they'll insure (often denying insurance to those who (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Agreed. Being Polish, what kind of chaps me a bit is that my countrymen, or at least some of them, at first eagerly participated in the genocide, taking over businesses and the like, then got the gas jets turned on them... (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Healthcare is a good/service. As such, it costs money. There is no entitlement to goods or services. Rights speak to behaviours, not to free goods. So, yes, if you happen to have planned things poorly enough that you show up on the hospital's (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's no toy. (...) It's not a good language to teach Computer Science with. BTW, there is arguably never any "right" way. Just different ways to do things that either work correctly or don't work correctly -- or perform correctly but (...) (25 years ago, 28-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Dude, you need a sarcasm detector. Actually, since I don't see the people rising up against the government anytime soon, that argument is dead in the water.. Also, overthrowing the government by force is illegal anyway. You can always get guns (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Burglary: Steal from another, usually unwilling and unwitting, person. Whoring: One person, completely voluntarily, selling something to another person. Spot the difference. Jasper "Hey, we're in .debate, no fun here" Janssen (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The problem with perl, I am told, is that it's also incredibly easy to do things exactly the wrong way. In fact, it's vastly easier than to do it the right way. Just like in any other language, of course, but in perl, "there is always more (...) (25 years ago, 27-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) So say the pun pundits. And those with a punerial disease. -Tom McD. when replying, don't use spamcake for a pun cushion. (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
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(...) By not giving examples of how previous centuries where "more humane", you are ignoring, to a certain extent, past events. Also, I may've exagerated slightly on the corpse lobbing thing. I'm not sure if spreading disease was a purpose or a (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:03:27 GMT, Jeff Stembel uttered the following profundities... (...) Never said they weren't. Never mentioned, though did not ignore events in the past. Didn't know about corpse-lobbing, though. Did know about the use of lime, (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:32:58 GMT, John DiRienzo uttered the following profundities... (...) Poor or not, it is actually a common argument, certainly amongst pacifists. (Me, I am a proponent of the MIC). Sure, the Japanese would have bombed US (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've lived in South carolina for three years now, after spending 20 in the north. I never hear the racist crap that permeates the northern culture. I used to hear people use the n word all the time and I've never once heard it here. Maybe the (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I never called this dry heat (In fact, the summers here are quite humid). I was saying I'd rather *have* dry heat. :) And yes, I know Pheonix has dry heat. I visit my grandparents living there every once in a while. :) Jeff (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 (...) Give me a break! You call that dry heat? Come on down to the real heat - Phoenix, AZ. Yes, it is miserably hot, but it's a *dry* heat. -- Terry K -- (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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