On Friday, October 18, 2013 7:32:28 PM UTC-4, Tony944 wrote:
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:43:26 GMT, (Cindy
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:35:25 GMT, (Cindy
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Is it required that you
lust after others' possessions?* You think
that's
healthy?* Does it help you save faster?* Does it help
your
neighbor pay for his?* The gain
is?

Not required.* Probably not
healthy.* In fact, I don't lust after
my neighbor's
chariot.* It neither helps me save faster, nor
helps him
pay for his.

Yet you think it's a good thing for
others?*

What does it matter?

It
matters a *lot*.* When people covet what others have instead of

what they will work for it wrecks society.*

Suppose
it's not good.* What are we going to do about it?


We?* You think it's just peachy to want to take from others.


There's no gain.* A lot of what people do produces no
gain,
yet it's human nature to do these things.* We're
not robots.

...and that's a good
thing?

Human nature comprises both good and bad.*
Always has, always will.

True but irrelevant.* You think
it's a good idea to cater to the least
common denominator.* I'd
rather look somewhat above that.

You seem to wish to
restrict people's freedom to covet.

It's wrong on
all levels.* It is a deadly sin for a reason.

Ah,
sin.* I don't have much of a concept of sin.

I can
tell.* Your lack of morality is quite evident.

I
suppose if pushed to it, I'd define it the way
Terry Pratchett
does:* "Treating people as things".

Define "it".


Covetousness doesn't seem to be a sin.


Bull****.* You *are* treating people as objects when you're envious
of
their possessions.* If you treated them as equals you could
never be
envious.

*



I see that are few people commenting
on these subject so let me put my two cent in!

Example in 2004 I have retire just for
me and my wife I was paying BC&BS type J coverage $1900.00 per month, the
very same coverage group insured was paying $800.00 or less, perhaps some of you
reading this will tell me that is fair: I don’t think so”. What happens with
people like me we want change even on the end perhaps become losers? *That is why some people don’t care who
they are taking it from “They want the
Change”!

I see, so you don't care if it works or not, if it's fair or not, if
it's going to make things worse overall or better.
etc. You just want Change. Do I need to explain how that has
been a path to very bad things happening in the past?

As for your problem of having to pay 2x+ for coverage
compared to what it cost when you were part of a group,
I sympathize. It's not an unusual situation. But there
are a lot of issues involved there, a lot of ways it could
have been fixed with free market solutions, a lot of problems
that still exist because nothing has really been done to
lower actual healthcare costs, which are what ultimately
drive the cost of treatment.