I think you make excellent point, both that the medical field is just the beginning, and that they are so sure that we will continue to produce no matter how many roadblocks they put in our way.
Remember when a producer in Atlas said something like we can't survive under these new regulations. And the moocher said, "oh, you'll find a way!"
I will never forget that line.

Of course. Inheritance tax wipes out the rest of what a person has earned throughout a lifetime of hard work. Redistribution, insidious style. Get em while they're cold...

but you DO get your sunshine directly from the sun!

my milk store just closed a branch a mile away and
built a larger one 4 miles away. . pissed us off. -- j

p.s. might I send you a charged-up battery,
in case the power goes out?

"intentional" refers to Obamacare and the Cloward/
Piven connection, I believe -- they do want us to
die off and leave it to them. -- j

and they see "the 'in' crowd" -- the Ché Guevara
t-shirts foretold something::: fascism is "in" among
the elites and those who aspire to that. . it's like a
resurgence of the Sixties, with flowers and tokes
replaced by needles and tokes. . and EBT cards. -- j

amen to that!!! -- j

we, the ignorant masses yearning to breathe free... -- j

so, to see my heart Dr. after bypass surgery,
I would have to be re-admitted to the hospital? -- j

Thank you, Scott.

Well done on the apology jtruran. For future reference: http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/faq#faq1...

Well done Mamaemma.

I live in a rural area 26 mi to nearest gallon of milk. Health care here is nonexistent any way in true rural America. 75 people is big city around here my heart bleeds.

this is a conspiracy! -- j

Accepted. Thank you. I think like all of us you are very passionate about the ideas we share here, and that's a good thing.

I just pulled that little missive and manicured it for
my tiny friend list. . Thank You! -- j

I guess I'm the fool, and unable to properly discern your comments. Please accept my apology.

Yes, I agree. I was trying to point out that these consequences are not unintended by the political class. They knew exactly what they were doing, just as they did in Atlas when they abandoned Wisconsin. I'm glad you understood, jdg.

I don't think Mamaemma was supporting the policy, only explaining it. It makes great sense from the standpoint of the lefty political class, not least because senior citizens are farther to the right than the general population. So most lefties would sign the bill in a heartbeat, just to watch us die.

Of course other countries contribute to the problem, too. Pretty much all other rich countries either have single-payer where the taxpayers cover everything, including drugs, or they have price controls on drugs. Either way, they pay less than free market prices for drugs (even if they have to manufacture them themselves rather than pay the companies that developed them), so pretty much all medical R&D is funded by US drug consumers if not by US taxpayers.

Give the US a single-payer system, and we'll have price controls too, and medical R&D will pretty much stop taking place. Or it will all be nationalized, and innovations that might cost the government some money (such as a cancer cure) will never see the light of day.

I think preventing this outcome is worth a few people dying from not enough care. Not that they wouldn't anyway, even under single-payer.

Jturan, I have to say that I am amazed that that is what you read in my comment.i guess you didn't realize that this "pathetic excuse for a human being" who "doesn't seem to have the mental capacity to discern your comment" was being sarcastic. Down voted for being insulting and degrading to someone who is on your side philosophically.

I've lived in Montana where the second-largest city in the entire state is only 75K people - the common "rural town" size was about 5K with many farming towns only 2-3K. It just struck me that someone would describe a population of 75 thousand people as "small". And rural is an identifier that indicates a separation from a major population center. That was the other part that made me double-take.

Woot! Scared three employees and one dog.

Jan, enabler

To answer your first question they see "Green" - the money taken from us and given to them.

Did you know that all insurance companies are tax exempt. Just Because.

I hadn't thought of that but I bet there are some good pieces of used medical equipment on ebay and craigslist. At our age we were actually considering investing in a defibrillator as a "just in case".