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Originally posted by jlilly
Evidence? Sorry. I had meant to post the link but for it didn't go through. Fixed now.
Let me ask you this question

Are you blaming the deaths of those people on capitalism?

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Originally posted by jlilly
So people who don't have the funds for health care have the right to die?
yeah, pretty much.

welcome to the real world jlilly.

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Originally posted by generalissimo
Let me ask you this question

Are you blaming the deaths of those people on capitalism?
I am blaming the deaths on high costs for cancer treatment and the inability for normal everyday people to afford those treatments.

Cancer treatment in America typically runs between $250,000 and upwards to a million.

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Originally posted by generalissimo
yeah, pretty much.

welcome to the real world jlilly.
How would you feel if someone you loved were dying from a condition that could be treated but could not afford it?

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Originally posted by jlilly
I am blaming the deaths on high costs for cancer treatment and the inability for normal everyday people to afford those treatments.

Cancer treatment in America typically runs between $250,000 and upwards to a million.
are you expecting they will do it for free?!?

cancer treatment is complicated, you know

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Originally posted by generalissimo
are you expecting they will do it for free?!?
Should it cost so much? Or, if it should, should people be left to suffer because they can't afford the treatment?

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Originally posted by jlilly
So people who don't have the funds for health care have the right to die?
Instead of buying a big screen television they probably would be better off buying long-term care insurance.

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Originally posted by generalissimo
Let me ask you this question

Are you blaming the deaths of those people on capitalism?
Given a long-enough time line, everyone dies. What's the matter -- are you worried about where your soul will be consigned for all eternity?

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Well, you better get off your butt and start buying up cancer treatments for those poor folks!

Or did you expect us to do it for you?

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Instead of buying a big screen television they probably would be better off buying long-term care insurance.
I bet jlilly is going to say something like ''live without a tv?! are you crazy?! thats the only way we can see Obama!''

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Originally posted by jlilly
I am blaming the deaths on high costs for cancer treatment and the inability for normal everyday people to afford those treatments.

Cancer treatment in America typically runs between $250,000 and upwards to a million.
You know why it's so expensive? Because it's the best in the world:

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=16832

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=15320

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Instead of buying a big screen television they probably would be better off buying long-term care insurance.
Not everyone dying from cancer because they can't afford the treatment means they have big screen TeeVees. And for the record, a big screen TeeVee can be had at Walmart for $700. Cancer treatment is roughly 350 times that amount, on the low end.

Not everyone can afford long-term care insurance either. Where have you been DSR? Millions of American's are without health insurance. Millions of American's have health insurance which is crap.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
Given a long-enough time line, everyone dies. What's the matter -- are you worried about where your soul will be consigned for all eternity?
not at all, I'll probably go to heaven anyway.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
You know why it's so expensive? Because it's the best in the world:

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=16832

http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=15320
Awesome! The best in the world for who, exactly? Ah, the rich, the rich.

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Originally posted by generalissimo
I bet jlilly is going to say something like ''live without a tv?! are you crazy?! thats the only way we can see Obama!''
I don't own a TeeVee!

I don't even own my own computer!

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