Posted on 03/19/2008 1:39:17 PM PDT by Incorrigible
"You hardly ever hear us talking about health keeping people from working and health keeping people in poverty,"
Really? Let's rewind the clock 200 years for some Ben Franklin quotes:
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
"Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything."
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"
Health equals wealth and there is no doubt about that.
What I don't understand, and I fault the "journalist" who wrote this, is why the subject can't get his $5 diabetes drug because he needs a doctor's prescription. She's meeting him at a health clinic for people just like him! Here's their mission statement:
The mission of the North by Northeast Community Health Center is to improve health outcomes in a medically under-served community by offering health screening and basic medical services at no cost. Priority is given to low-income individuals without health insurance living in the surrounding inner N/NE neighborhoods.
It would be helpful if the writer would tell his how the clinic actually helped the man!
he was dismissed more than a year ago from a truck-driving gig for speeding
This article smells of aged BS. What a tear-jerker. Out of work for a YEAR as a truck driver? Riiiiight.
I have a hard time believing that one speeding ticket kills a trucking career. Truckers esp. longhaul are in big demand.
This is so a “woe-is-me-we-need-socialized-healthcare” article.
My Dr. gave me Blood Pressure medicine samples for 3 years.
$86 a month prescription.
He got ‘em free from the Eeeevil drug company
We’ve been hearing the same shallow crap for years. If they just had a “chance,” and some “help,” they could make it...
For 40 years, we’ve had one entitlement program after another with very little change in the poverty rate. What we do have is a large group of people who are dependent on the government and the taxpayers.
How little we know of history! The tyrants have often used “the needs of the people” to gain popular power.
Take a look at Hugo Chavez. He doing the same things, in fast forward.
“...47 million uninsured in this country...”
The Left and the Media throw this number around with ease. Many of these people can AFFORD health insurance, but choose not to pay it.
Cable, smokes, booze, beer, and burritos are more important to them than health insurance.
So be it.
Don’t forget we could cut the number of uninsured in half if illegal alians were not included in that amount.
Oh, pullleeeaassseee....get off your duff, quit eating processed food (you can check out the DASH DIET for year - the gov't will send you the diet for FREE!) The Dash diet results are amazing - 70% of those who go on it are OFF their bp meds in 3 months.
According to Barack Obama, Ashley’s mother’s Cancer got better after she ate Mustard and Relish sandwiches for a year.
I provide full health coverage, dental, retirement, etc., to all my employees.
They don’t even think about it anymore, although the costs average more than $8000 per employee.
Just, for one year, I wish they all had to pay their own taxes, insurance, etc. We just give them a check for their full level of salary and benefits.
My guess is, many of them would drop their health insurance and 401K contributions!
What a load!!!
Yes, in a job that requires a good driving record and without union protection. The unions as a rule, are trouble, but they can protect workers from frivolous firings. Management jobs are probably the most precarious.
For those crying "BS"...apparently you haven't been in the real world lately.
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"Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss. Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty. Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing. Attain the supreme wealth, wisdom, and you will have everything."
Obviously a blatant misquote. There were no "electric earphones" in Franklin's day, or (I would estimate) for the better part of a hundred years thereafter.
I don’t know about Oregon laws, but in AZ one speeding ticket that isn’t properly handled can kill your truck driver license, so it could kill a career.
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