re: #494 cliffster

You understand that you have a kneejerk reaction to become insulting when people disagree with you? Sometimes very insulting, sometimes just sarcastically condescending. But always insulting. You should look over your posts.

No. I have a knee-jerk reaction to people who insult my intelligence with bumper sticker playbook wisdom. Plenty of people have disagreed with me here and I have been very polite to them, because they are reasoned, explain their position in detail, and don’t resort to cheap gotchas. Plenty of people have tossed gotcha phrasebook crap at me, called me a troll, linked to baseless fake science, snark about Obama, snark abotu Al Gore, snark about Carter, snark about Pelosi, snark about big government, and then they get cry foul when i dismiss them.

Instead of the “YOU WANT TEH GOVZORMENT TO RUN EVERYTHANG” line, maybe you should actually explain to me how you think the health care system in this country should work, how we fix massively rising health care costs, how we combat recission by private insurance, how we stop people who are rape victims from ebing dropped by insurance. How we stop kids with cancer from being dropped by insurance. All these things, that are actually happening. All these problems! And your answer is one sentence. I don’t ACTUALLy believe the only solution is a government based system, I think it’s one solution. You would have known that earlier, if you didn’t go all reducto ad absurdum on me.

Wow, it’s really surprising that I don’t respond well to that!

Oh, and I’d like some evidence that medicare is a failure. Not snark, not bumper stickers, real evidence. From where I stand as someone who has worked in htalth care with medicare recipients, I think it’s a roaring success. Republicans oppose expanding medicare, I notice they won’t dare touch the issue of abolishing medicare.