My plan is to simply die in the yard, why do I need healthcare?

[TWiley]

If I get sick, my plan is to die. I will never be able to afford anything else. Why all the fuss about healthcare?

[taterguy]

1. Because not everyone has your plan

[Stevenmarc]

3. Or a yard

[TWiley]

8. You would prefer to linger in pain then?

[taterguy]

9. Not all illnesses are fatal. I like being able to see a doctor for health problems

I guess I'm weird that way

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Plans go awry

You may decide that the pain is unbearable and that some pain management is in order. Besides having to listen to your wailing from down the street until you croak, I want to know that if you wuss out and call the ambulance, it'll be done at minimal cost to society...and THAT's all the fuss about healthcare!

[TWiley]

10. now, that is a pretty good answer

Cant you see it now .... dozens laying in their front yard croaking. Sounds like the world before social welfare programs doesn't it? Wounded and diseased vets (WWI and earlier) without extended families would simply .... die. Unmarried people or couples without children ...... would simply die.

This is the Grand ole Plan of the Grand old Party !

[dbt]

4. Well Spoken!

Of course, you could post that the sky is blue and get two pages of arguments to the contrary around here.

Myself, I want to be buried unembalmed near the creek on the back forty in a new pair of overalls with the pockets full of marijuana seeds--so's I can at least/last do something good for Mother Earth.

:evilgrin:

[TWiley]

6. I would love to grow a bush or tree that fed the squirrels

If there is eternal life, then it is likely the fact that you must eat something that was once living to sustain life. I live because I ate the potato, and the potato lived because it ate something that was also once living. This goes all the way back to the first molecule of life.

[shadowknows69]

7. You rock!

[Voice for Peace]

17. that's such a nice idea!

the seeds in the pockets.. I love it.

[Brazenly Liberal]

5. Unfortunately, before your well planned demise,

you might contract a disease that is contagious. Without health care, your odds of contracting said disease are increased, your odds of treating it are greatly decreased, and thus the odds of spreading it around to others are pretty high.

Some of us who opt in favor of health care grant you the right to get sick and die in your yard if you choose, but we would appreciate it if until then, you would live in your tool shed alone to avoid forcing others to accept involuntarily your voluntarily increased risk of misery and early death. 'kay?

[TWiley]

11. absolutely .... take as many others with me as I can....

I am not simply adorable .... I am downright contageous.

[Brazenly Liberal]

12. Well, in that case,

let me pm a few names and addresses to you. :evilgrin:

[TWiley]

13. LMAO !

[surrealAmerican]

14. Those of us who do get health care will also die.

The real question here is are you just going to go on living with that broken leg, or are you going to have it set.

[TWiley]

16. Actually, I did that three times.

I broke the right ulna and it was not set
I broke the small bone in the lower leg, was not set,
I broke two ribs and they were not set.

I went to the hospital for the ulna fracture without insurance, and they said it was not life-threatening and opted to not treat it. I made a splint out of newspapers for a while.

[JeanGrey]

18. You can't "set" ribs.

[bunkerbuster1]

15. Why, all you need to do is go to the emergency room.

Conservatives tell me all the time that everything's free, there.