Originally Posted by Elephant Walk (Post 2071850)

I'm confused on how preventative health services wouldn't exist, without public money.

Currently, gobs and gobs of private money goes into preventative care. And it works, better than the governments inefficient system. Why not enhance the private sector over the public, so that citizens are able to choose what to do and not do with their money?

The fact that you think that you have the right to tell anyone what to do with their money is absolutely disgusting. If you believe in limiting that personal freedom, you probably also want to ban gay marriage...at least if you didn't want to be hypocritical.

Originally Posted by KSig RC (Post 2071852)

Because we're not operating in a hypothetical market - we're operating in an actual, defined system, one in which insurance companies have very little incentive to push preventative services (due to consumer, government and market pressures), and one in which their slavish devotion to quarterly earnings trumps the long-term cost benefit of pushing preventative measures anyway.

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI (Post 2071856)

Must this thread, of all threads, really turn into yet another GC barking contest?

ROOF! My bark is the loudest.

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI (Post 2071856)

Must this thread, of all threads, really turn into yet another GC barking contest?

ROOF! My bark is the loudest.

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI (Post 2071856)

Must this thread, of all threads, really turn into yet another GC barking contest?

ROOF! My bark is the loudest.

Originally Posted by AlwaysSAI (Post 2071860)

^^^Sure don't.

Originally Posted by agzg (Post 2071876)

Is your bark the loudest? Or is your house the most dry?

Originally Posted by KSig RC (Post 2071889)

Yes, people disagreeing and discussing matters at a moderately high level really takes a dump on a thread, doesn't it?

Take off your moderator pants, put on a pot of tea, and chill out. EW is somewhat one-note, but a lot of times there's an interesting point to discuss underneath the Libertrolling.

Also, it's like the most anti-Feminist thing on Earth to say "this thread, of all threads" - seriously?

Originally Posted by AOII Angel (Post 2071811)

I used to take that. Hopefully it will be generic soon, too. Argh...earliest expected date is 2023! Try Lybrel. You take it everyday with no break at all. It now has a generic.

Originally Posted by nittanygirl (Post 2071898)

I wish could be free.
I pay $20 a month bc I'm can't use my insurance for it and sometimes, being still in school with only a part time job, it gets to be too expensive for me and I have to cut out some of my groceries, etc to afford it. Personally, I think my boyfriend (long-term, 5 years) should pitch in every now and then since it's not just me who is ready for a baby (& he has a full-time job and I don't)

Although I know people who pay more, so I can't complain too much.

Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2071912)

I believe that partners should share expenses but consider whether he pays expenses, that benefit the both of you, that you do not pay.

Originally Posted by DrPhil (Post 2071893)

If "house" is code for vagina, you picked the right thread. :)

Originally Posted by KSig RC (Post 2071889)

Yes, people disagreeing and discussing matters at a moderately high level really takes a dump on a thread, doesn't it?

Take off your moderator pants, put on a pot of tea, and chill out. EW is somewhat one-note, but a lot of times there's an interesting point to discuss underneath the Libertrolling.

Also, it's like the most anti-Feminist thing on Earth to say "this thread, of all threads" - seriously?