----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stone" <pas@xxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 9:58 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: health care > Paul Stone: > SO.... now I have a scar > that I wouldn't have and I wasted six hours and hundreds of dollars of the > taxpayers money to get an x-ray and a bandaid [literally]. Sounds like a toss up to me. On the one hand you lost bragging rights about how many stitches it took to save your hand, on the other hand (tee-hee) you got a manly scar upon which unlimited heroic stories can be woven. Ah, Take the taxpayers cash and let the time credit go, nor heed the rumble of a distant USA Insurance Industry drum. > Now, I'm not completely disrespecting the Canadian Health Care system. 15 > years ago, I had a life-saving heart operation that, had I lived in the > united states, I would probably be paying for, for the rest of my life. No, had you lived in the U.S. and not had insurance, you'd be dead now. My rich, great aunt Emmy when told she needed a triple by-pass, asked her doctor, "What do people do who can't afford this operation?" "The graveyard is full of them," he said. Being self-employed, I have no health insurance. I don't fret about it. I am like my grandfather who at 95 still bragged about never having been to a doctor, "Doctors kill people" he always said. But when he was 95, he fell and broke his hip and my Dad took him to the doctor and three months later he was dead of pneumonia. "Damn, if he wasn't right," my sorrowful Dad acknowledged. Doctors? Ha! I laugh at thunderstorms. I shake my fist at God and dare him cross the line. I dance up and down ladders. "Catch me if you can," I taunt Fate, Karma and Capitalism -- especially Capitalism who will lose big time having to eat all my debts. Mike Geary Memphis ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html