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That's a good reason why I don't want a national health care plan. That way, people can have the freedom of choice to slowly kill themselves and I don't have to pay for it

I see the smiley, but I still have to chime in and say that this would be a bad argument if you *were* serious (because some people actually take this view).

The recent initiative in Texas to put all uninsured people with emphysema on a barge and then take them out into the Gulf of Mexico and drown them? Well, that didn't fly. Even in Texas.

So, all of those long-term, dying smokers, insured or uninsured? Well, you are paying for their health/death care.
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Jim


'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.