I too have dental insurance and I wouldn't go to Mexico for a glass of WATER - unless of course I had a desperate urge for the trots.
This confuses me though - you march forth one example of someone who'd travel to Mexico for unspecified "dental work" (of all things), yet ignore the MILLIONS of Mexicans who desperately want to exit their country to get into the United States and benefit from our medical system, educational system, for work, for everything this country has to offer that THEIR COUNTRY doesn't.
Simply incredible....
That might be because you are not 6 or 7 hours from the border. Just yesterday I saw a story about just this very thing, Americans going abroad for medical procedures that are cheaper.
You and I both have common sense, the VAST majority of Americans lack this. I don't know about you but I have had the misfortune of being on the inside of a Mexican Emergency Room (with a family member) and I can tell you that the level of care is fairly high, as long as your credit card didn't get declined. The hospital we were at was actually the one they had picked for Dubya to go to in case of emergency while he was in Cancun.
Originally Posted by DerSchweik
As to capping Rx prices - as with capping ANY price - all that does is reduce the quality of and access to prescriptions; it's one of the "unintended consequences" of attempting to play god with an infinitely complex market system - the gross hubris of the supposed "good" it does actually makes matters worse.
Then why does it work so well in Canada and pretty much all of Europe?
Originally Posted by DerSchweik
The market system is the ONLY system in the world that can provide the most goods to the most people at the cheapest prices; it is the ONLY system in the world that can provide the most innovation and highest quality of life for the most people - which is has been proven in the United States. I marvel at people who hold third-world countries like Mexico up as examples of ANYTHING worthy of admiration.
Health care being the notable exception. Remember the socialist French do it cheaper and better.
Originally Posted by DerSchweik
...for which all of us pray fervently you never do come up with a cure for cancer - knowing now what you admit you would do with such power.
But don't presume on others the same values you admit you hold towards human life.
I am one of those crazy people who would give it away free. I don't think anyone should profit off the suffering of other people. I have no problems taxing billionaires at 75% if it means every child goes to bed healthy and with a full stomach.
Cutting it up like this makes it look kinda like you are complementing me....thanks
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-JFK
War is God's was of teaching Americans geography.
-Unknown
Yes....the backlash against having nobel prize winning presidents, like BO and Carter, is frightening. America gets sick of all that thoughtful, intelligent diplomacy stuff and feels the need to replace it with something more low brow. First, an actor...then a inarticulate cowboy...what next, a Tony Soprano knock off? Scary, indeed.
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I listened to the first video and when I closed my eyes and just listened, I couldn't tell if he was talking about the Democrats of the 60's or about the Republican administrations of his own or either Bushes.
Yes....the backlash against having nobel prize winning presidents, like BO and Carter, is frightening. America gets sick of all that thoughtful, intelligent diplomacy stuff and feels the need to replace it with something more low brow. First, an actor...then a inarticulate cowboy...what next, a Tony Soprano knock off? Scary, indeed.
I'm guessing that after 8-12 years of thoughtful leadership "teh peepul", bless their ignorant hearts, will elect John Gosselin.
...everybody sing along now,
"O Canada, our home and native land,
true patriot love in all thy sons command..."
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Given Carter's messages about creating a greener, more oil independent economy, and having Americans take a good long look at themselves and how they can better help their neighbours makes one think:
How Great could America be today if they hadn't had the disaster that was Ronald Reagan?
At the Parbar on the west there were four at the highway and two at the Parbar. - I Chron 26:18
Mt 7:6...
One of my favorite Scriptures!
tulc(great for confusing "true prophets of God")
__________________ So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls,
why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are enemies of God.
-Andrew White
We've all been conditioned to think of love as the heart-pounding,
breathless passion of the young -- not the complex feelings shared by two
time-ravaged people who spend afternoons holding hands, as a defense against
loneliness, disease and death.
-Kate Zernike
6"Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and then turn and tear you to pieces.
How do you determine which of us posting here on CF are dogs and which of us are pigs? Because what if you accidentally gave something sacred to a pig or threw a pearl to a dog?
tulc(suspects that would be embarrassing)
__________________ So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls,
why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are enemies of God.
-Andrew White
We've all been conditioned to think of love as the heart-pounding,
breathless passion of the young -- not the complex feelings shared by two
time-ravaged people who spend afternoons holding hands, as a defense against
loneliness, disease and death.
-Kate Zernike
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