Comments on: Ain’t No Such Thing As Free Health Care

By: tyree

tyree — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:46:04 +0000

One more thing about the BMI test, how many retakes will the student get if the test is administered wrong and the student flunks it? My daughter flunked her “fat test” which made everyone in the class laugh out loud. She was 5’6″ and a size zero at the time. She has been dancing since she was 5 and at the time could do two hours of ballet rehersal on her toes and not be exhuasted.

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:51:27 +0000

Oh, I completely agree! My daughter’s 15 now and has grown into what used to be an admittedly pudgy tummy. But I’d grown up being taunted (by my own mother) about having a less-than-perfect figure myself. So I resolved to never, EVER say anything less than positive about her body. Years later, she’s become an athletic young lady with a killer bod… and a great self-confidence.

By: Janet

Janet — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:18:46 +0000

Fast way to piss me off is to send ONE more height/weight /BMI notification home for my kids. As if kids, girls especially, aren’t already bombarded with messages on weight, we need to start the neurosis even earlier. I already have a 9 year old who worries that her stomach isn’t flat thanks to other kids whose parents are flipping NUTS about the whole thing.

The only reason so many were for universal health care is because they think ‘free’ and don’t stop to think that ‘free’ has to be paid for SOMEhow. And guess how? I hear the IRS a-comin’…

By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:35:43 +0000

Absolutely right.

Plus, as an aside, there are a series of books written by Angela Thirkell dating from about 1930-1961 (when she passed away). Many find them “boring” I find them fascinating as a chronicle of life in England before and through WW2 and rebuilding. She is shrewdly observant (even if she’s got the class system thing going *grin*).

She wove in the advent of British National Health Care in the 1950′s with a scene between a woman and her maid…the maid had just gotten new glasses. The woman asked her why, after all, she didn’t need glasses. The maid said “because they’re free”. There is of course more, but that’s the gist of it.

It pretty much speaks volumes about how people treat something they think is “free”. Everyone wants something for nothing – never realizing that someone somewhere MUST pay the bill. *sigh* Great Britain is many years ahead of us in this National Health thing – but while reading her, I see many of the same issues that are being raised today – so the arguments continue.

By: One Stack Mind

One Stack Mind — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“The perfect woman: smart, sexy, and perfectly capable of kicking your [butt]” (Hereafter simply called “Kate, of Electric Venom“, writes aboutthe dangers of “free” healthcare: Then think about the government not merely making recommendations and pronouncements, but also having the authority — by virtue of paying for everyone’s health care — to control health care costs. How do you think they’d do just that? Why, by