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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Pay to Play

I'm going to re-use this one...

A basic question about our health care system.  Why is getting sick your fault?  And why should the for-profit hospital take my house?


I admit, I've never really thought about it this way, but there's very little distinction between putting someone in debtor's prison for being poor and seizing someone's house for non-payment of medical bills.

And the fact that tens of millions of Americans started screaming their lungs out to protect a system that often screws people over is just appalling.

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