America

[The Antagonist]

[*]The World Health Organization "ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. [was]...37^th." In the fairness of health care, we're 54^th. "The irony is that the United States spends more per capita for health care than any other nation in the world" (The European Dream, pp.79-80). Pay more, get lots, lots less.
[*]"The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens" (The European Dream, p.80). Excuse me, but since when is South Africa a "developed" country? Anyway, that's the company we're keeping.
[*]Lack of health insurance coverage causes 18,000 unnecessary American deaths a year. (That's six times the number of people killed on 9/11.) (NYT, Jan. 12, 2005.)
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[*]But please don't let get facts get in the way of your yank boorishness.

I guess the WHO is the end all and be all in health care? Do you forget most of the doctors who belong to the WHO come to AMERICA to study medicine?
South Africa became "developed" when Great Britain colonized it. Good job! Another impoverished and diseased nation developed in grand UK style.

Lack of health insurance is in no way a cause of death. I have explained this before when you chose to either ignore it or you're just too stupid to understand, so I'll say it again.

NO ONE is denied health care if they ASK for it. All they have to do is file for charity care and you can either get it free or you pay it back on a sliding scale basis according to your income level. The key word here dim wit is ASK.

Just because the GOVERNMENT does not provide us health care, we HAVE it available. We just don't WANT some lame ass governmental agency telling us what to do in regard to our health. We want to choose our own doctors and we happen to like seeing the SAME one time after time. We do NOT like having our government pick our doctor for us.

Listen up Chickie, if you really want to sound like you have one iota of intelligence in regard to our health care and welfare system, you should pay the fuck attention to what people reply to you and get a friggin education. For some reason you think we make up what we tell you and are walking around clueless as to what's going on around us.

Welfare is not freedom. It's a handout. It's akin to you moving in with your mother and letting her support you and your family. Maybe you're in that situation already and that's why you fail to see what we are trying to say?

LMPP - yes! My sister in law was the same way. Bitch had a ton of stuff, musical instruments, college education, then trade school after. She had a job the school found for her for about a month and decided that being a junkie was better. So because they deem being a junkie or alkie a 'disease' she gets fucking disability AND a welfare check and they paid her fucking $1000/ month rent! Meanwhile at the time that was going on, I was struggling to pay my mortgage and support my family by WORKING.

Why was I struggling? Because the TAXES were being taken out of my salary to pay for fucked up slobs like my sister in law and your husband's ex!