muh_roads
07-17-2009, 06:26 PM
My mother again this time...just thought maybe you'd wanna read before I retaliate.
I sent her this link which I think is a slam dunk that talks about how to lower health care costs...
http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=279
She didn't really answer any of it specifically. She instead sent this...
Don't know that I agree with some of this stuff.
Are you aware of how many of us are endangered because of stupid things that were done to the environment for decades?
For example, those of us who were children in the '50's and lived in certain "hot spots" are supposed to be monitored somewhat frequently for thyroid cancer. I am one of them as Iowa is considered a hot spot -- particularly around Des Moines so I lucked out there a little bit. The problem is the cows eating grass and then us children drinking their milk. The grass was contaminated by nuclear fallout because above-ground-testing of nuclear bombs was done in the west and the winds carried it eastward. All of Kansas was especially bad. I do know of one classmate that had thyroid cancer many, many years ago. So far, I am ok.
This is just one small example of how many of us might eventually develop something really bad BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ACTIVITIES !!!!!!!!!! and then many of us could be denied health coverage because of pre-existing conditions --- THROUGH NO FAULT OF OUR OWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stress enough just how disgusted I am about the whole thing.
God only knows what's in the things we eat or drink, the medicines we ingest, the air we breathe and have breathed for a long time, and on and on. In fact, more and more contaminants are showing up in our drinking water -- and bottled water very often is no better than what comes out of our tap because a lot of it is also tap water from someplace else. Filters can remove only so much of it. You, Dad, Grandma, me -- could be victims of some of this crap and, frankly, I think the government owes it to each one of us to help us with the huge medical bills we may some day have just because the government was too lazy or corrupt and in bed with corporations that are knowingly polluting our ground water with putrid materials.
I sent her this link which I think is a slam dunk that talks about how to lower health care costs...
http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=279
She didn't really answer any of it specifically. She instead sent this...
Don't know that I agree with some of this stuff.
Are you aware of how many of us are endangered because of stupid things that were done to the environment for decades?
For example, those of us who were children in the '50's and lived in certain "hot spots" are supposed to be monitored somewhat frequently for thyroid cancer. I am one of them as Iowa is considered a hot spot -- particularly around Des Moines so I lucked out there a little bit. The problem is the cows eating grass and then us children drinking their milk. The grass was contaminated by nuclear fallout because above-ground-testing of nuclear bombs was done in the west and the winds carried it eastward. All of Kansas was especially bad. I do know of one classmate that had thyroid cancer many, many years ago. So far, I am ok.
This is just one small example of how many of us might eventually develop something really bad BECAUSE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S ACTIVITIES !!!!!!!!!! and then many of us could be denied health coverage because of pre-existing conditions --- THROUGH NO FAULT OF OUR OWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't stress enough just how disgusted I am about the whole thing.
God only knows what's in the things we eat or drink, the medicines we ingest, the air we breathe and have breathed for a long time, and on and on. In fact, more and more contaminants are showing up in our drinking water -- and bottled water very often is no better than what comes out of our tap because a lot of it is also tap water from someplace else. Filters can remove only so much of it. You, Dad, Grandma, me -- could be victims of some of this crap and, frankly, I think the government owes it to each one of us to help us with the huge medical bills we may some day have just because the government was too lazy or corrupt and in bed with corporations that are knowingly polluting our ground water with putrid materials.