12 Responses to “Best. Graph. Ever.”

1. Xman says:

   Friday, March 5, 2010 at 7:30 pm

   Stunning.
   I really know nothing on this subject.
   I hear what both sides say, and I see people joining one side or the other, but I don’t think they “know” either.

   What I do know (and have partaken of), is that other industrialized nations have great healthcare and they are happy with it.

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2. JoeC says:

   Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 10:32 am

   My current opinion from trying to digest the truth from the B.S. from both sides: we have the best specialized care in the world (cancer treatment, heart surgery, brain surgery etc.) but rank waaaaaay down the list in normal and preventative medical care. Ulimately good normal care saves more lives than good specialized care, but a bigger percentage of those lives are poor people so the establishment doesn’t really give a rats arse for the most part.

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   • Xman says:

     Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 2:58 pm

     That is my take too, Joe. Maybe I better check it. Could be we are just more finely programmed.

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3. pelmo says:

   Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 8:36 pm

   It would be nice to know what they are trying to palm off on us and calling it health care reform.

   If it’s anything like the Credit Card Reform Bill, we are in big trouble. It sounds good, but it still allows the card companies to rake us over the coals. Everything congress does these days, corporations will come out on top.

   Joe we have become so fixated on pills solving all of our problems, that we no longer watch what we eat or drink. Eat as much as you want, that diet pill will take care of it. The hell with giving kids fresh fruits and vegtables, a vitamin pill will solve the problem.Preventative medicine is up to us and not doctors.

   Xman tell Joe that if more people ate naturally as you do how much healthier they would be.

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   • Xman says:

     Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 3:19 pm

     I think you are correct, Pelmo.
     We might get a little something, but the big boys are going to get the lions share.

     On my health: I have finally discovered my pleasure zone in cigars. I think this is a prelude to addiction. If this is what cigarette smokers experience, I finally understand why they like it.
     Every cigars knocks me into such a pleasure stupor and the recovery takes so long, that I imagine two armies fighting it out in my body. The bad guys are Amazon Women in Raquel Welch outfits (1 Million B.C.) and the good guys are a bunch of nerdy looking guys. Guess who wins?
     I have been making audible sounds of approval hile I smoke, for awhile now.

     I also think cigars may have a delusional effect on reality perceptions. This beautiful under 30 something girl at the grocery just keeps getting friendlier and telling me more about herself. I like myself, why shouldn’t she? Today it was health food and the effect on her body. She brought it up, not me. I could only manage to nod sagely, since all my energy had been diverted to the video screen in my head, where I was busy imitating a dog in love with a soccer ball.

     Anyway, did I validate your comment on healthy eating?

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4. libhomo says:

   Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 5:44 am

   What we really need is single payer. With less money than what our country spends now on healthcare, we could provide quality care for everyone. All we need to do is to get rid of the inefficient and rapacious HMOs and health insurers.

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5. JoeC says:

   Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 6:38 am

   Agree with all above, this country has the wealth to more than fix the health care problem, and the corporations that run the country are going to be greedy and take more than their fare share when the dust settles. Speaking of fresh food and eating well, check out this disturbing but hopeful video: http://www.ted.com/talks/jamie_oliver.html

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   • Xman says:

     Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 8:37 am

     Thanks, Joe.
     This is what I watched as I had my coffee this morning.
     Inspiring.
     I eat pretty healthy, but could do far better.

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6. pelmo says:

   Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 9:00 pm

   Never will happen. People wont give up their well manicured lawns and replace them with gardens. I don’t see Americans peeling themselves away from their wide screen TV’s to work in the garden. They are something from the past, never to be visited again.

   Even the farmers no longer have gardens, except for the Amish community which believes in raising their own fruits and vegtables.

   As for health care, we don’t need more legislation or governmeant involvement. No matter how well intentioned many bills are, as they solve one problem, they tend to create many more. Just find out what the four or five leading causes for high health care and work from their to solve the problems.

   Supposedly compatition betwen the insurance companies, just like in auto insurance, is supposed to lower rates, why is so little emphasis put on it. Could it be congress doesn’t want to step on toes?

   Xman talking to a thirty year old female about health food can’t be considered healthy eating. And drink more milk, we have to sweeten you up.

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   • Xman says:

     Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 7:25 pm

     LOL.
     How about “dating”? I can’t be more descriptive or Joe will throw me off his site.

     I drink soy milk.
     As an infant (after weening) my folks bought a goat. Only thing I could hold down.
     Oddly, I’ve always had a special affinity for goats.

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7. pelmo says:

   Friday, March 12, 2010 at 10:14 am

   Since your “dating” a thirty year old, should we be preparing ourselves for a future headline “Grizzly Adams” suffers heart attack in pursuit of young heffer.

   Never had goat milk. My parents would drive about 15 miles every friday after work to a small farm. There we would get milk right from the cow. Fresh laid eggs and sometimes even a just killed chicken or two.

   By the time you would get home, the milk had settled in the glass gallon jugs. My parents would skim off the two inches of sweet cream and save it. When they had enough they would pour it into a wide mouth pickle jug. My job was to shake it till it turned to butter.

   We drank some of the milk and poured some into quart jars and let it congeal and had our own home made yogurt.

   In the fall the farmer would butcher a hog and we would split it with another family. Then my dad set up a 55 gal drum and smoke the ham and bacon in the back yard.

   The old farmer was fantastic as he told tales of the old days to this wide eyed kid. If anyone is intrested there was a story of how Elliot Ness himself, sat outside his farm, and staked out the place.

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   • Xman says:

     Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:32 pm

     Great story!!!

     PS: I’m still alive.

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