I don't want to be in the pool with people who disregard simple reason and prudent behavior in their lifestyle choices. People can give themselves diabetes. People ruin their livers. People smoke.

How can that be handled? I'm against any mandate. I'm sure two thirds of the country is sufficient to negotiate discounts on X-Rays. Right? Makes sense, doesn't it? 200,000,000 people?

Thats almost as many as currently have insurance. If some of the insurance companies were to close for some reason, like redundancy, lack of competition, or a national health insurance company (Franny Med) doing what they do better, with lower premiums, lower overhead and fewer options to deny coverage or care, or if people were to become unemployed for some reason, like the RNC running roughshod over the USA for the past decade, ...

But fatness comes from excessive caloric intake relative to the body's metabolism of those calories. Alcoholism doesn't happen at dinner one night. These are societal ills, but I can't accept responsibility or the bill for it.

Remember Terry Schiavo? She's the one they wouldn't let die. In a permanent vegetative state, the RNC stopped the earth from spinning and opened a special session of Congress to declare her alive and well, despite the concurrence of every doctor in the world that when the brain turns to mush, there isn't much hope.

Are they afraid we'll find out they're all brain-dead and we'll pull the plug? Granted, they're all fossils these days and more vulnerable to reality creeping into their 'golden days' mindset.

Or is it more about the billing? How many heart surgeries are performed in the last months of life? Why? For money of course, but what about Granny?

Republicans are creeps, and do everything they do to campaign for the votes of the freakin' crazies. Forget them, it's time to roll over 'em.