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[Inquartata]

Right, so all we have to do is put the entire population on a severely restricted diet, and all will be well. Or arrange to be Okinawan. Got it! Yeah, that works.

Pfft! You and your single-minded emphasis on policies. Where is the appreciation for pure knowledge unsullied by use?

Diet and exercise are essential - but not sufficient.

Well, it has sufficed thus far for me!

[Hauptman]

Well, it has sufficed thus far for me!

So then can we assume that due to your deeply held beliefs and inspiring good health that you don't have health insurance?

[Inquartata]

No, I have it now. I just seldom use it...

I am not opposed to the idea of health insurance. I am not opposed to the idea of people buying it, or of employers ( or others ) providing them with it, or subsidizing its costs. Whatever people want, the private marketplace should supply them, if it can and will.

I am opposed to the idea of being forced to buy it, or of being fined for not buying it. I am opposed to the idea of being made to help provide it to others by means of the government's coercive taxation powers.

[jeff]

Pfft! You and your single-minded emphasis on policies. Where is the appreciation for pure knowledge unsullied by use?

I absolutely love pure knowledge, and useless trivia too! But, since we were talking about policy, after all....

Well, it has sufficed thus far for me!

I toast your robust health and offer wishes that it continue. However, in the unfortunate circumstance that it doesn't, I would like you - and everyone else - to have basic, fundamental health care.

To the private marketplace should supply them, if it can and will, I continue to wonder how the gap can be closed between a service that is often expensive and people who may desperately need it yet have little money. Just how does that translate into "can and will" in the private market? The usual lines about government distorting markets doesn't deviate from the truth that healthcare is inherently often very, very expensive. And our system of doing it in the US - which financially rewards people for "doing these to/for people with money or coverage" is the distortion that bears watching.

[I_luv_saber]

Well, it has sufficed thus far for me!

Sounds so familiar...

Now, see, you are extrapolating one---one---anecdote into "they do it all the time".