Re: Should test strips be "prescription only"?

W. Baker wrote:
Michael <micoder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: Alice Faber wrote:
: > In article <hcjtgd$jrl$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
: > sometimers <sometimers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: > : >> KevinB wrote:
: >>>> you could eat a peach 45 minutes or so before you go in <g>.
: >>> "Eat a peach"? You're naughty, aren't you?
: >> Won't do much to the A1c readings.
: > : > Nope. But if he wants a nonce reading that's high enough to get a : > diagnosis, he might as well do it by eating something that he's craving.
: > : That is a good idea. It sure won't help my A1C but I might get a : diagnosis out of it.

: I understand the frustration of those here who are angry about health : care in Amerika. Half of our congress and Senate are nothing more than : corporate prostitutes. Right now they are pimping for the health : insurance companies because they happen to be passing out the most cash : at the moment. I understand it is in the 10s of millions per week going : to key congressmen and senators.

: They have the best care socialized medicine can produce. The rest of us : can just die quietly.

: I am always amazed how they have convinced so many Americans to get : angry at the idea of ordinary Americans getting the Cadillac care that : our politicians get. It is simply beyond my understanding. Maybe all the : angry Americans at the meetings are those who already have great medical : care and they just feel like screw those who don't. I have a : conservative neighbor who explained his reasoning to me.

: He said that health care for only those who can afford it is nature's : way of thinning out the weakest of the herd.

: Michael

What I love are the lder folks screaming against "government run "Socialist" medicine and DON'T TOUCH MY MEDICARE.


Here's the problem. We all have paid into Medicare with
no choice in the matter. It became riding the tiger's
back because once you start you can never let go.

How could the government end such a program? They can't,
because like social security they've turned it into a
Ponzi scheme. It happened to social security because
those we trusted with the funds decided to spend the money
as it came in, promising to pay out of future income.

Easy abortions coupled with periods of massive unemployment
and a collapsing birth rate have yielded a shortfall in
the money available to pay social security benefits. Past
governments have robbed people in/of the future. The same
is true for Medicare.

Yes, the programs are socialistic. No, I'm not thrilled
with what already exists, but I have no choice in what
is, only *perhaps* in what will be. Don't forget that
choosing the new Obama/Pelosicare that's being urged
on us today will reduce the available medical care
for you and your husband under Medicare. They're
already fiddling about with what medicines are provided
under Part D. And Part D drove up the price of a
number of generics I now go to Walmart to get.

Government meddling in health care has not been a
pretty thing.
.

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