On 7/15/2012 2:10, BOB KLAHN -> JOHN MASSEY wrote:   
    JM>> Yes.   Can you buy car insurance after a wreak? Can you buy   
    JM>> fire insurance after the house burns down?   
      
    BK>   You have to have care insurance before you drive.   
      
   Not if you only drive on private property.   
    BK>   ...   
      
    JM>> What about them?  Are they expected to treat people that   
    JM>> can't afford treatments.  If the person that needs treating   
    JM>> can't pay who will?   
      
    BK>   Thank you for admitting that your position results in, if they   
    BK>   can't pay let them die.   
      
   Life's a bitch.   
      
      
    BK>   If you chose not to have health insurance, and can't pay for   
    BK>   medical care, then letting you die might be reasonable. Since   
    BK>   the great majority of the uninsured have long been working poor,   
    BK>   who can't afford insurance, then being poor is a death sentence   
    BK>   under your theory.   
      
      
      
   All the more reason to make life choices that help not hurt.   
      
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