From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 22:44:54 -0500, Mark  wrote:

>
> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
> news:op.s6quo1e0eipai0{at}dsl40.bgtnvtpl.sover.net...
>> On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:24:06 -0500, Bill Lucy 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In article ,
>>> monte.davis{at}verizon.net says...
>>>> >What do you think
>>>> >would have happened to the deficit if Hillarycare had passed?
>>>>
>>>> What do you think's going to happen to it with the Medicare
>>>> prescription benefit?
>>>
>>> A fellow^h^h^h^h^h^hbenefit of infinite je^h^hcost.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not happy about that either, but total care for everyone would have
>> been much worse.
>
> I think the prescription benefit is not nearly so bad as the detractors
> want
> to make it out to be (just as their whining about "No Child Left
Behind"
> is
> a bunch of wringing hands liberal "protect the teachers that
don't teach"
> BS).
>
> That doesn't mean I think the program is all peaches and cream, but
> neither
> do I think expanding socialist healthcare is sustainable in the real
> world
> (as proven by the failure of it everywhere else).
>
> We need real reform and we're simply not going to get it; too many
> liberals
> are socialist/communist in nature and will never allow the "people" to
> take
> care of themselves, and boy will that carry a high price: the loss of our
> republic.
>
> Pass the Evian, if your monthly allotment allows you the luxury.
>
>

At the very least the thing should be means tested.

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Gary Wiltshire

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