[QUOTE="obsolete2k1"]its the government's responsibility to provide healthcare because people pay for it through taxes. _Marisa_
Maybe they should provide me healthy food to keep me healthy.
With your thinking, the government would quit providing health care, so the families would have to pay it. That's 100 dollar co-pays plus practitioner bills. Any tests run would cost money as well. That could add up to thousand and thousands of dollars. And E.R. visits? Forget it. It'd be around 20,000 dollars for a life-saving surgery, and you expect middle c1ass families to pay these bills? Are you ill? People would be dieing left and right and be in constant debt because of it. Even if they lowered the prices of these services, then the doctors wouldn't get paid as much and it would lower the amount of doctors in the field because nobody will want to go to school for so long and work so hard to get average pay. They'd end up doing half-ass jobs like in third world countries. This is so false. The reason prices are so high now is because of insurance, not lack of it. The medical establishment is run by insurance monopolies. They say how much everything is. Get rid of insurance and prices become affordable. Why you ask? Because they have too. Just look at the plastic surgery industry. It's set up so people can afford the service because it's not covered under your insurance policy. As for having third world doctors, just take a peek at countries with socialized medicine and where the majority of their doctors come from. All social medicine will do is kill inovation and make the best brightest do something else because they can make more money elsewhere.
[QUOTE="drufeous"]Song of Ice and Fire series by George Martin. Easily the greatest series I have ever read. So many plot twists and cliff hangers. Martin is amazing.strieeyes
How many books were in the series? Is it still ongoing?
Not sure about the number of titles but, yes it's still on going. The next one should be out in the very near future. For recommendations I'll go with The Terror by Dan Simmons, Devices and Desires by K.J. Parker, and The Blade Itself by Joe Abercombie. I finished all these in the past two weeks.
Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey (Definitely wasn't what I expected when I picked it up....I was sure it was just another fantasy novel...had no idea 80% of it was all bondage...S&M...you know. I'm still reading it though....)
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I've gotten drunk on more than one occasion with Ms. Carey. We're from the same town. Her girlfriend is hot too.
Why is this a surprise to anyone? Our government is made up of people who represent us and the vast majority of Americans have no idea what fiscal responsability is. No wonder we're so in debt. All this does is reflect on our society and the spend, spend attitude everyone has.
Scotland, namely from Islay. There is nothing even close.CrimzonTide
I would concur with you 100%. I've got two bottles of Lagavulin, on 12 year, and another that's around 20. I've also got a couple of Lophraig, and Ardburg too. Yummy!
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