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Originally Posted by kazbates
That's it in a nutshell. The difference between people who think they should be "taken care of" and those who take care of themselves. That's really at the core of the healthcare debate here. I don't want the government to take care of me other than emergency services, education, and military. When my husband was out of work, we relied on my paltry teacher's salary and our savings. We paid for our own health insurance (by the way, I do believe that ALL insurance is a scam and that the insurance industry is what really has a strangle hold on this country) and took care of our own needs. We cut out everything that wasn't essential. That's what responsible people do.
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The problem is the definition of "essential".