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Hawkeye6,

That is a good one. If only it were that simple. Then again, I think we need a lot more action and a lot less talk nowadays.

Val,

My point is rather simple. I did a health care cost study around 1998 for an attorney I was clerking for. It seems that the government could pay for health care if it raised our taxes by something between 12% and 15%. Might as well pay for the health insurance if that is the case.

Advances in technology allow people to live longer and better nowadays. Problem is that it costs a lot for that technology and we all want to live longer and better lives. I know a guy that has gone through 3 knee replacements. Last I checked, those things weren't cheap and they weren't available 50 years ago. The big problem is that everybody thinks they are entitled to health care and every medical procedure and medication under the sun just because they happen to be breathing. Kind of like how people think they are entitled to cheap gas, cheap housing, cheap food, etc. It just ain't so.

I made a comment about two post before that stated I know people that do not go to the doctor unless they are dying. Well, I left off that I know hispanic people that do not go to the doctor unless they are dying. Not many of the ones I know have health insurance, so they only go when they are really sick. Of course, if they do not have any money, the state ends up picking up the bill. However, the same thing goes for the poor of this country. Back in 1999, the firm I was working for had a client that got shot several times because he would not give his jacket to some guys that demanded it at gunpoint. Medical bills were $60,000+ and the state picked up the tab because he was poor.

Entitlement started with the poor. We gave them Medicaid, social security disability, welfare, etc. and now they think they are entitled to these things. Granted, I think these were good programs when started, but now they have gotten out of hand. How come we have so many poor people in New Orleans that do not work? Why don't they do the jobs that the illegals do? My wife's tech's husband refuses to work in retail and construction, even though he only has a high school education, because it is beneath him. He refuses to live in a condo because it is beneath him. Meanwhile, they sold their house before it was foreclosed on. They used the equity to rent a townhouse they could not afford, and not, a year after selling their house, they are planning on moving into another townhouse because it is $100 a month less than where they currently rent.

Anyway, I digress. My point with the alligator purse is that people think they are entitled to it. Kind of like they think they are entitled to health insurance. When I attended law school, I had no health insurance because I could not afford it. Such is life. However, I did not complain up and down about it.

Okay, now I have to get back to work on a Saturday over Memorial Day Weekend so that I can try to earn enough money so I can afford the single family house, vacation property, retirement fund, new firearms, and everything else that I am entitled to.

I wonder what life was like 100 years ago? How about 200 years ago? Did the government solve most of people's problems back then, or did people have to take care of things themselves? Then again, life was a lot more simple.