On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:58:25 -0500, "Tom Littleton"
wrote:


wrote in message
.. .
are you prepared, right here, right now, to
state that you are willing to pay a proportional share of not only his,
but
these other "millions with similar stories," regardless of what that mean
for
your and your family's own financial situation?

not going to answer for Larry,

Whew, good...I was beginning to think everyone on ROFF but me knew this
couple...

but the sensible thing for all Americans,
with any sense of a common social contract with one another, would be to
answer 'yes'. Why?

Yeah, that's what I'm asking - why?

Because the bit about 'regardless of what that means...."
is just a smokescreen. With single-payer national health insurance, the cost
per person would plummet.

What makes _you_ think that? And no, Medicare is not a single payer system.

It's a given.

Lemme guess - Louie's brother-in-law gave ya the what's what on it? Seriously,
though, why is it a given?

And, it ought to be a no-brainer,
except for the fact that the one party which has shown no brains, and less
compassion, seems determined to block it. And the other,seemingly, doesn't
have the collective balls to make the case and pass it.

Um, OK - refresh my memory - which party is which...?

TC,
R
Tom