I posted my initial reaction to the no one should die because they can’t afford health care meme on Friday. Since then, 47% of search traffic to this blog was generated by some variant of the meme: no one should die because they cannot afford health care and no one should go broke because they get sick. if you agree please post this as your status for the rest of the day. I have to admit that the post was probably not my finest, it was hastily thrown together while I was waiting for the coffee to finish brewing before I ran off to work, but it was blogging as blogging’s meant to be, I suppose. Prompted in part by a facebook discussion, but also by the tremendous amount of traffic that … Read entire article »

For many people (and yes I’m jumping to conclusions and making sweeping generalizations here) “No one should die because they can’t afford health care” is the weasel way of saying “I want someone else to pay for it” without sounding like a panhandler. So, take what follows with a grain of salt, OK? On that note, someone’s Facebook status said: No one should die because they cannot afford health care, and no one should go broke because they get sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest of the day. No one should die just because they were born in sub-Saharan Africa, either. But they do. Doesn’t make it fair, but it happens. For every “poor” or underprivileged Westerner complaining about their lack of “health care” (NB: … Read entire article »