You know what I meant, though.
Weren't you always one of the most vehement defenders of why moving ahead in DS9's timeline was unnecessary? Obviously, things are different now post-Destiny so I look forward to a greater ability for easy connectivity of the various series.
There's also the old adages "don't fix what isn't broken" and "you can't argue with success"! <SNIP> Kind of reminds me of Obama and his healthcare plan now that I think of it!
Kevin
There's also the old adages "don't fix what isn't broken" and "you can't argue with success"! <SNIP> Kind of reminds me of Obama and his healthcare plan now that I think of it!
Kevin
I'm with you on the DS9 Relaunch jump, but I cannot even begin to comprehend how you could possibly imply that the American health care system is not broken or is successful.
40 million Americans at any given time cannot afford health insurance. Those who can afford health insurance routinely face incredibly flimsy excuses automatic denials of coverage for any treatment that's deemed too expensive. Americans have a lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rate, and an overall lower set of health care outcomes than that of any country making use of some sort of universal, single-payer health care.
And speaking from my own experience, I can tell you that if you're poor and you get really sick, you're royally screwed. Several years ago, my mother almost died because she knew something was wrong but could not afford regular, preventative health care because she lacked insurance. So when she experienced major pain in her abdomen after having worked a 9 hour shift on her feet, she went into the E.R., who promptly told her that she needed to travel to the hospital of a neighboring city because there was a giant pocket of infection on her right kidney that would kill her within a day or two if it wasn't immediately removed. She then spent two weeks in the hospital and another six out of work in recovery. Had she waited just a day or so longer out of an attempt to avoid spending money, she likely would have died, and as it was, we couldn't afford the bill -- forcing the hospital, of course, to pass their loss onto other patients.
The bottom line is that the United States spends more for inferior health outcomes, and all the while the poor have much less access to health care than anyone else in a discriminatory system. The American health care system is broken, and only someone who's never been screwed over by an insurance company or never been sick while poor could think it isn't.
There's also the old adages "don't fix what isn't broken" and "you can't argue with success"! <SNIP> Kind of reminds me of Obama and his healthcare plan now that I think of it!
Kevin
I'm with you on the DS9 Relaunch jump, but I cannot even begin to comprehend how you could possibly imply that the American health care system is not broken or is successful.
40 million Americans at any given time cannot afford health insurance. Those who can afford health insurance routinely face incredibly flimsy excuses automatic denials of coverage for any treatment that's deemed too expensive. Americans have a lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rate, and an overall lower set of health care outcomes than that of any country making use of some sort of universal, single-payer health care.
And speaking from my own experience, I can tell you that if you're poor and you get really sick, you're royally screwed. Several years ago, my mother almost died because she knew something was wrong but could not afford regular, preventative health care because she lacked insurance. So when she experienced major pain in her abdomen after having worked a 9 hour shift on her feet, she went into the E.R., who promptly told her that she needed to travel to the hospital of a neighboring city because there was a giant pocket of infection on her right kidney that would kill her within a day or two if it wasn't immediately removed. She then spent two weeks in the hospital and another six out of work in recovery. Had she waited just a day or so longer out of an attempt to avoid spending money, she likely would have died, and as it was, we couldn't afford the bill -- forcing the hospital, of course, to pass their loss onto other patients.
The bottom line is that the United States spends more for inferior health outcomes, and all the while the poor have much less access to health care than anyone else in a discriminatory system. The American health care system is broken, and only someone who's never been screwed over by an insurance company or never been sick while poor could think it isn't.
sorry but arn't there other sections of the forum you could have included this and not here,
I thought this thread was readers reactions to the 2010 book schedule - which I'm still fifty fifty over, as much I liked the film, I may not get the NuTrek books and as for the Typhon Pack novels and the time jump for DS9, I think this is great - and not the state of the American health system and Obama's gradious attempts at creating the USA a wellfare state concerning the health system.
Here, here! - Though it should have been directed at Ktrek, who initially interjected the irrelevant, unrelated, and Beck-level silly analogy into the thread.
Uh... aren't there other sections of the forum you could have included this and not here?I think this is great - and not the state of the American health system and Obama's gradious attempts at creating the USA a wellfare state concerning the health system.
Here, here! - Though it should have been directed at Ktrek, who initially interjected the irrelevant, unrelated, and Beck-level silly analogy into the thread.
Uh... aren't there other sections of the forum you could have included this and not here?I think this is great - and not the state of the American health system and Obama's gradious attempts at creating the USA a wellfare state concerning the health system.
"Sloth" using the Pakleds by Greg Cox.
I see 3 for 3 in this idea!
The whole anthology sounds really fun!
--Ted
