You know, I'm finding this primitive obsession with free medical care for all tedious.
NOT the theads about the issue posted here, but just the primitive obsession with it.
Medical care, I suppose, is important, but on my own scale of priorities, it's not even in the top ten. Or twenty. And I am saying this as an individual who has some medical insurance, but what's generally considered "inadequate" or "below minimal" (no prescription drug coverage, no dental coverage, no optometry coverage, a very high deductible, &c., &c., &c.).
I've never reached the deductible; for years and years my medical care has been cash (the flip side to that being, if one offers cash--no checks, no credit card, no "I'll pay next week," just plain ordinary cash on the spot and one gets a receipt--one ends up paying, for example, $85 for something usually circa $225).
I was in the hospital for two and a half days the weekend after Thanksgiving, and that too was cash, three figures. (It was, one must admit, a pretty uncomplicated case, requiring little more than bed rest.)
Sometimes one has to scramble for the cash, and so yes, it can be a problem.
However.
Medical care is important, but it's not anything I obsess over; instead, I spend a great deal of time worrying about national defense, the liberation of the enslaved, education, highways, space exploration, freedom of speech and religious expression, the right to life, social justice, the environment, govenmental taxes and expenditures, &c., &c., &c. (in no particular order of priority).
I suspect the primitives are obsessed with free medical care for all, because refusing to acknowledge God, they have a fear of death. It's natural, it's a good thing, to fear death, but from observing the primitives, one gets the impression their fear of death far transcends the boundaries of the normal fear of death.
