Rpruett said:
It's nothing to do with being rich. You still are paying a sizeable amount of your income even if you don't make a lot of money.
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But most people already pay a sizeable portion of their income to health insurance companies. And if they don't have health insurance their potential liability can be much higher, and potentially bankrupt them.
Health insurance companies are simply a for-profit middle man who provide no real service. All they do is transfer money from one person to another and giving nothing back in return. At least the government would be doing it without taking a slice of the pie for itself.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
