Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to BOB ACKLEY:

 BK>  Just because the federal govt is not allowed to do
 BK> something  that doesn't mean the states can.

It does if the something isn't specifically forbidden by the
Cosntitution or by the states' constitutions.

 BA>>>> Since you think health care should be provided by the
 BA>>>> government, you should also support the government
 BA>>>> takeover
 BA>>>> of the food production and distribution system in this
 BA>>>> country.  People will die a whole lot quicker without
 BA>>>> food
 BA>>>> than they will without health care.

 BK>>>  And you still can't understand what you yourself said.
 BK>>> You
 BK>>> are  the one who kept saying insurance was not to provide
 BK>>> health  care, but to manage risk. Now that is absurd on
 BK>>> the
 BK>>> face of it,  but your comment above contradicts that.

 BA>> Insurance *IS* part of risk management.

 BK>  Yeah, for the patient, not the insurance company.

You don't understant the concept of insurance - nor do most people
who support Obamacare.

 BK>>>  The whole point of national health care, which is nothing
 BK>>> other  than insurance, is to spread the risk of a
 BK>>> possibility we know  will happen, but do not know when and
 BK>>> to whom.

 BA>> Hardly.  The point is to *control* the health care system,
 BA>> just as Medicare is about the *control* of health care
 BA>> provided to the elderly in this country.

 BK>  Which is so silly as to not even count as a meaningful
 BK>  statement. You seem to think you know the motives of
 BK> everyone  who disagrees with you.

Yep.  

 BK>>>  You can round up 1000 randomly selected people, and I can
 BK>>>  guarantee every single one of them will require food
 BK>>> within the  next two weeks, or they will never require
 BK>>> food again.

 BK>>>  You cannot tell me which of that 1000 people will require
 BK>>> what  medical care in the next two weeks.

 BA>> True.

 BK>>>  That is the difference, and that makes your challenge a
 BK>>> fraud.

 BK>>>  On top of that, you mischaracterise National Health Care.
 BK>>> It  doesn't take over health care, it just guarantees it
 BK>>> will be  covered.

 BA>> No it doesn't.  That may be what Obama is claiming, but it
 BA>> isn't true.

 BK>  Oh? Then how does it control but not insure coverage?

By denying coverage.

 BK>>>  And I do support the idea that the government should
 BK>>> guarantee  food to those who are unable to provide for
 BK>>> themselves. Esp  since the alternative is starvation.

 BA>>>> BTW, just in case you think you have a "right" to clean
 BA>>>> drinking water, try not paying your municipal water bill.

 BK>>>  And you just took another shot at your own position. We
 BK>>> do
 BK>>> pay  our water bill, we will pay for medical care. I do
 BK>>> have a right  to clean drinking water, and a
 BK>>> responsibility
 BK>>> to pay for it.

 BA>> Good.  Then your right to health care includes the
 BA>> responsibility that *you* pay for it.

 BK>  Yep, and we do.

 BK> National health care includes insurance
 BK>  exchanges where you can buy your own insurance, and
 BK> continues  employer provided insurance, and subsidies for
 BK> insurance for  those who cannot afford it. All nice private
 BK> sector insurance.

You can believe that if you want to.  I believe that all that nice
private sector insurance will go away as insurors abandon that
government-controlled market.  Then you will have that "single
payer" system you want.  After that happens the government
can go about its goal of eliminating private *providers*, and
once that is accomplished there it will be a *single provider"
system.

 BK>  Medicare and medicaid are not significantly affected.

 BK>>>  You may have a well, but is the water clean?

 BA>> It is not treated.  Out of the well pump into the water
 BA>> taps in the house, no filters.

 BK>>> Have you had it  tested?

 BA>> Yes.

 BK>>> Is it poluted by industries that the government
 BK>>> didn't  regulate because too many people said the govt
 BK>>> shouldn't  regulate?

 BA>> No.  My well water has a high but not unsafe concentration
 BA>> of nitrates because it's located in the middle of a corn
 BA>> field.

 BK>  If it wasn't safe, what would you do?

Call Culligan and have them install a filtration/purification system -
at my expense, of course.  Approximately $2K for my existing system
and problem, or about $20/month if I want to lease rather than purchase
the equipment.

Or I can buy filtered drinking water at the local supermarkets and use that
for drinking and cooking, and use the non-potable well water for washing.

 BK> Tap into a non-existant  municipal system? Your clean water challenge

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