No, Doug is not crazy. He's just a man who lived off charity and government largess in his working life, doing the same thing now who wants his own benefits maximized while saying that others do not deserve the same.

A "small government conservative" with the nerve to live off the taxes paid by others is not crazy, quite the opposite. But such a person might safely be called a hypocrite. An ignorant one at that if he, has he has implied, thought that his Medicare and Social Security payments were being saved for him to draw against. Those taxes are to cover those who are already in the system.


BeardedBruce says that affordable health care for all is "pie in the sky." but it is pie in the sky that every other industrialized country and many under developed countries such as Cuba, manage quite nicely. Obviously there is a large gap between Bruce's expressed opinion and easily observable reality.


The fact is the US system is the worst of all possible world for the citizen and for the consumer. The insurance companies get all the most profitable clients while the government pays for those to old and sick for those companies to profit from. The reason for this was quite well illustrated but the election results last night. The insurance companies have enough money to buy important elections and to convince people to vote against their self interest.