Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-09-06 Thread Patrick Sweeney
What exactly do you propose for everyone in the world who cannot afford basic health care such as childbirth assistance and infant care and vaccination? Watch those goalposts shift! I'll play. You say taxes are theft of freedom. There are people who are taxed more than those of us in the

Re: DeLong on health insurance reform

2009-09-06 Thread Patrick Sweeney
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:29 PM, David Hobby hob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: John Williams wrote: On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:50 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: ... Yes, I AM prepared to make you pay your share to keep people from dying Really? Would you literally come to my house with

Re: Passive-Agressive posting (was Re: The Role of Government in a Libertarian Free Market)

2009-08-18 Thread Patrick Sweeney
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Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

2009-08-16 Thread Patrick Sweeney
When you reach a point where the suggested solution to ridiculously overpriced health insurance is to take out an insurance policy on your insurance ... perhaps it's a sign that you ought to consider some other system. Patrick On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 12:24 PM, John

Re: A Real Free Market in Health Care

2009-08-16 Thread Patrick Sweeney
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, David Hobbyhob...@newpaltz.edu wrote: I'd guess that Patrick is expecting health insurance to have health status insurance already built into it. One would think the whole point of health insurance is to provide you with health care (more precisely, the funds

Senate Hearing on Wiretapping

2006-02-06 Thread Patrick Sweeney
) ... They sometimes forget? Is this al Qaida or the Keystone Kops? For that matter, if al Qaida's this naive inept, why even bother with a War on Terror? Just, you know, plant a pie truck near their base or scatter banana peels around. Problem solved. ___ Patrick

The Radioactive Boy Scout

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
anti-nuclear stance. Anyone else read it? I originally read it along with Bobby Fischer Goes to War for an obsessed prodigy two-fer. :) Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: The Radioactive Boy Scout

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
blunder or pivotal moment, so it's accessible even to people with only a passing interest in chess. A great read. Here's the Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060510242/102-8102077-3649715?v=glancen=283155 Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Human-Animal Hybrid Ban

2006-02-04 Thread Patrick Sweeney
Hi folks, Does this mean a big-screen version of Manimal is out? Patrick Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l