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To: foofoopowder

"Those numbers are amazing. Almost $2 billion for HIV/AIDS and only $14 million on prostate cancer! "

They really are, arent they?

It's sad because AIDS is almost DIRECTLY preventable, whereas prostate cancer and other diseases are related to diet and genetic predisposition.

Just imagine what would happen with Socialist Healthcare or rather Government Enforced Death. You'd have to pay for OTHER people's genetic susceptibilities and/or lifestyle habits (smoking, drugs, drinking, etc).


56 posted on 07/29/2005 6:14:31 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite (islamofascism, like socialism must be eradicated from the face of this earth)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

Just imagine what would happen with Socialist Healthcare or rather Government Enforced Death. You'd have to pay for OTHER people's genetic susceptibilities and/or lifestyle habits (smoking, drugs, drinking, etc).

Fact is we're already paying for others' self-destructive habits, either by paying huge medical insurance premiums or paying the taxes that support Medicare & Medicaid. Not everyone of course, but a very high percentage of people in a hospital at a given time are there due to cigarettes, alcohol, bad diet, drug use, and no exercise. The profile: obese person chain smoking, drinking beer while driving to a fast food restaurant to buy monster burger with fries. Or lifetime smoker and drinker who now has heart disease, lung cancer, liver disease and diabetes. Or homosexual drug user performing sodomy. We are already paying. More socialist health insurance plans (see Hillary Clinton) would ruin the economy of the U.S.


66 posted on 07/30/2005 8:16:27 AM PDT by foofoopowder
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