More on the Drug Bill

Herman Rubin · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 7

In article ,
Mack wrote:
>On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:23:32 GMT, "mike gray, CID"
> wrote:

>>Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>>> "mike gray, CID" wrote in message
>>> $0v4.21003124@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>>> M. Pann wrote:

.....................

>>The refusal of US citizens to give up their tradition of deciding for
>>themselves their individual care regimens is the reason we will not have
>>national health service in our lifetime.

>>Strawman indeed.

>no it's our refusal, it's our apathy towards getting directly involved
>and forcing our politicians to do what is right.

WHAT is right? You are saying that it is right to make me
pay for what some government bureaucrat thinks you should
get in medical care, but that I do not have the right to
spend it on what I think I should get.

Marxist totalitarianism.
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Archived from group: misc>health>diabetes

mike gray · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

samsmom wrote:

>> If you were Honduran, as a young acquaintance in very similar
>> circumstances is, you would get insulin and syringes. Once a month you
>> would go to the free clinic where bg would be checked. Your child would
>> be on a very strict diet and exercise regimen. And each virus contacted
>> at school would make him immune to that virus.
>>
>> Now that's arrogance! He's so arrogant, he wants to finish eighth grade
>> this year so he can get a really good job. He hopes to work repairing
>> agricultural machinery.
>>
>> Count yer blessings.
>
> I think your point was that it is not necessary to test 5 times a
> day for anyone.

No. My point was, count yer blessings.

Jmmbear · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 48

In article , Jim Dumas
writes:

>mike gray, CID wrote:
>
>> Testing five times a day is a hobby, or maybe a fetish, but not a
>> necessity. And strips are 54 cents each in Boca Raton, Florida.
>
>Dear Mike,
>
>Please run for President.
>
>We need another laugh,
>--
>Jim Dumas

I dont know what kind of strips he was useing, but the cheapest I have seen the
ultra strips is 79 cents each..I live in the same area in Florida.
As always YMMV and this is JMO
Jeanne Type 2 Diagnosed 05/28/02
189/154/120

Mack · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 15

On 17 Dec 2003 09:06:55 -0500, hrubin@odds.stat.purdue.edu (Herman
Rubin) wrote:

>In article ,
>Mack wrote:
>>On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 02:23:32 GMT, "mike gray, CID"
>> wrote:
>
>>>Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
>>>> "mike gray, CID" wrote in message
>>>> $0v4.21003124@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>>>>> M. Pann wrote:
>
> .....................
>
>>>The refusal of US citizens to give up their tradition of deciding for
>>>themselves their individual care regimens is the reason we will not have
>>>national health service in our lifetime.
>
>>>Strawman indeed.
>
>>no it's our refusal, it's our apathy towards getting directly involved
>>and forcing our politicians to do what is right.
>
>WHAT is right? You are saying that it is right to make me
>pay for what some government bureaucrat thinks you should
>get in medical care, but that I do not have the right to
>spend it on what I think I should get.
>
>Marxist totalitarianism.

I did not say what you just concluded.

Mack
Type 1 since 1975
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