CarlC: seems to me you should move to Hawaii.

This is precisely the kind of trivialization of other people's problems and other people's deaths that I am talking about, DougR. This is the "let them eat cake" approach to problem solving. You are mocking people who don't have access to health care when you cavalierly suggest that they move somewhere else in order to solve their problems. You really don't give a shit about anyone but yourself, and you prove it every single time you make a stupid, puerile, contemptible, condescending, suggestion like that one. You should be ashamed of yourself, too. Very ashamed.

And tell me this, DougR... where did the money come from that paid for your health care while you were working? In at least two of your jobs, I know it came from the taxpayers. So you've been sucking at the taxpayers' teat (as JtS put it) for a very long time. It's the taxpayers who paid for your health care while you were working, the taxpayers who paid into the Social Security and Medicare funds for you while you were working, and the taxpayers who are providing you with those things now. You have been the beneficiary of the very thing you are trying to deny others. That proves that you only care about yourself, and it shows that you are a freeloader, just like beardedbruce.