25th May 2003, 7:01 AM
ABF wants basically a socialist state, where the government controls every aspect of your life. Before, the government decided that smoking should stop, so they went after the tobacco industry. Now they think that overeating should stop, so they'll go after fast-food. How long will it be before they decide that computers and videogames prevent us from getting necessary amounts of exercise and they lobby to eliminate them too? What's to stop them from doing it when liberals like yourself only try to encourage federal intrusion into private lives?
It's more hypocritical than funny how you can decry the Patriot Act for it's federal intrusiveness, yet you're all for something like this.
And last, Canada's health care system is ATROCIOUS, and it's the last thing we need here. We don't need the drastic tax increase that would be required to support such idiocy, we don't need the inevitable decline in quality and shortage of doctors that Canada has. What we need are tighter insurance controls, and we need to stop babying poor people so much. It's because poor people abuse the free health care they have now that insurance premiums keep going up, because hospitals, especially in urban areas, are so often inundated with non-emergency cases from the poor, who do not pay a dime, but use supplies and doctor's time and drive up HUGE bills that the rest of us have to foot.
It's not that hard to get medical insurance. Practically every job above the fast food level offers it in some form.
It's more hypocritical than funny how you can decry the Patriot Act for it's federal intrusiveness, yet you're all for something like this.
And last, Canada's health care system is ATROCIOUS, and it's the last thing we need here. We don't need the drastic tax increase that would be required to support such idiocy, we don't need the inevitable decline in quality and shortage of doctors that Canada has. What we need are tighter insurance controls, and we need to stop babying poor people so much. It's because poor people abuse the free health care they have now that insurance premiums keep going up, because hospitals, especially in urban areas, are so often inundated with non-emergency cases from the poor, who do not pay a dime, but use supplies and doctor's time and drive up HUGE bills that the rest of us have to foot.
It's not that hard to get medical insurance. Practically every job above the fast food level offers it in some form.
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