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Originally Posted by donc  I don’t think Jerry, or myself, is saying that it is hard to get coverage, it’s just that it is hard, or near impossible, to get “affordable coverage” when you are making near minimum wages. Which in my opinion is what most of our service industry jobs are becoming seeing as most of our decent paying manufacturing jobs are moving offshore thanks to nafta. |
The reason why I have the high ground in this debate at the moment is because I'm refusing to use the extreme worst case scenario as my example. That is what national health care supporters do. I don't believe that such examples should be used to establish public policy because
1. they are not a representative sample and
2. there are better solutions to their problem then billing the public.
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My bottom line on this issue is this: if your average able-bodied single person is really, truly having such a hard time in life, they should join the military.
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While I might stop and ask "
why didn't Joe average receive basic trade skills in high school", I think that making the argument would to open a whole other can of worms.