>> I don't see anything wrong with companies trying to maximize profit. Why
>> would people expect anything else? If you believe that all people should be
>> entitled to equal medical coverage you should look to governments not
>> corporations. Then of course healthier people have to put up with
>> supporting the less healthy. This is particularly irritating when my tax
>> dollars support those who smoke, eat lots of fat, and take really stupid
>> risks (such as driving without a seat belt or consuming drugs while
>> driving).
>
>Tell me, how in the hell does your tax money subsidize my not wearing a seat
>belt? If you are talking about medicare support for the disabled, its your own
>fault for choosing to live in a political unit which has such an insurance
>system which you must pay into and is full of people who are not anal retentive
>wenies like yourself. If you don't like it go found the Anal Retentive Republic
>and set things up as you like them. I certainly don't want my tax dollars
>supporting your neuroses about other people's behavior, or the fascist state
>you want to turn our country into to force everyone to act the way you want
>them to.
-patrick
Patrick Wilken http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~patrickw/ Editor: PSYCHE: An International Journal of Research on Consciousness Secretary: The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/ http://www.phil.vt.edu/ASSC/