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Originally Posted by East Coast Okie
<<And your damn right one should be able to pursue the job of their dreams! We are not slaves. To pursue the best one can be is a basic and fundamental libertarian concept - an American concept! - and yes, a right! What does "free" mean? In fact, it's called the "American Dream!" Is everyone capable of doing more than your example of dead animal cleanup? No, but they should be able to quit and flip burgers if they want. There's no reason in the world health care shouldn't be portable. What job you have at any given time shouldn't have anything to do with it.>>
If you don't want to settle for a "cruddy" job with good benefits, go make enough money and buy your own policy. There is your portability. Or pay as you go. Lots of people do that. I don't think I should have to finance "your" dream job. That may make YOU free but it puts a collar around MY neck. I don't know of any society, at any time in history, that seriously included the premise that people should be able to work at whatever job they want and not have to make sacrifices. There are too many people out there barely scraping by and working hellish jobs to take care of their families (and damned grateful that they can put food on the table) for me to have much concern for someone wanting to fulfill themselves on the back of other's labor.
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You make MY argument for me - I don't get it. You are right, many people work hard at cruddy jobs and alot of them would like to move on to something bigger and better but are STUCK because of their health insurance! Hello? You can't run out and buy a personal policy if you are already diagnosed with just about anything! Also, have you priced individual policies? Even with high $5000 deductibles - we're talking astronomical! You sound like a very conservative, far right Republican who thinks about me, me, me before thinking about how that kind of thinking will destroy our country for future generations.
You also need to become educated on how Universal Health care would work. You make it sound like a '60's era giveaway program. Read up and don't get all your information from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and all those who do the bidding of Big Pharma, the HMOs, the big insurance companies and everyone who WINS with our current economic Darwinian system of providing (or not providing) health care.