Since beggars can't be choosers...?

Question

...couldn't we save thousands of tax dollars by giving everyone in the free clinics Skittle's instead of medication?

Answer 1

yeah! great idea!!

...we can do that to the failing big businesses who need bailed out too *:)

Answer 2

Actually....  probably about 90% of "medications" from the doctor are worthless - or worse - they're dangerous drugs.  To be poor is to not have the money to go near a doctor or his bag of poisons.  You're probably better off than being hooked on some of the horrible potions they advertise all day long on the tv - cholesterol "medications", blood pressure "medications".

I'm a heavy duty liberal and in favor of all this health care stuff - but the unfortunate side effect of sending a lot of people to the doctor is that a lot more people will have unfortunate side effects.  Let the rich people poison themselves with "medications"!  

Answer 3

You could do that....if you wanted to help quicken the wiping out of humanity.  The reason why everyone should support health care issues, is because it's not a ME issue.  It is in fact an US issue.  Viruses and bacteria mutate, they also become drug resistant (think MRSA), so now it's not just a threat to the people who can't afford to get medicated it becomes a threat to people who can in fact afford the treatment, but guess what there isn't any treatment for it.  You can't have a it won't happen to me attitude about these things because it can.

  Imagine if an Ebola type of virus somehow made it's way into an inner city area where the population was largely without health care.  Now, imagine that there is actually a cure for it, but since they can't afford it, we won't give it to them because we don't want to spend the money.  Now, how long do you think that virus will stay in the inner city?  How long before it's out in the suburbs and affecting people there.  How many people is it ok to let die for your cost saving efforts?  

The very true and sadly never spoken about reason that we should make sure that everyone has full access to health care is that it's not too unlikely that we could have a bubonic plague 2 in all of our futures, and by not giving full access and preventative care to people something that could be minor could quickly turn into a country wide epidemic.

Answer 4

Great Idea

Answer 5

considering the way the drug companies push so many pills onto people we might be better off.

Answer 6

That is what Bush wants to do.You might have heard of this contraception-as-abortion thing going on.If he is trying to get dumber by the day.He really needs to quit.His I.Q.by the way?88.I looked it up.Moron(just above,but the proof is in the reality).