Reply #23: I've been posting on a couple of blogs that deal with local issues [View All]

[Lydia Leftcoast]

and I'm appalled at the lack of empathy exhibited by some of the posters.

Our Dems are going to propose a single-payer health care option for the state, and you should see the reactions, things like:

If some of those people would just give up their cell phone contracts, they could afford health insurance.
(Tell me, oh wise one, where I can get even crappy health insurance for the price of a cell phone contract!)

We don't need health care. We use natural means to live healthy lives.
(Remember Adele Davis, one of the foremost advocates of organic foods, who died of bone cancer?)

I'm not going to have my taxes raised so that all the illegal immigrants can get health care.
(You'd rather they die in the streets? Yeah, you probably would.)

All we have to do is deregulate and use the free market so that people have the freedom to make their own health care decisions.
(And the free market has that effect exactly where?)

and so on and so on.