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Old 07-20-2007, 09:08 AM #5
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Originally Posted by actx View Post
Why do you feel we are entitled to choose whatever medical device we want and have someone else pay for it?

Medicaid and Medicare are both welfare programs designed to provide medical care to either indigents or the elderly. Cost management is necessary as they both are growing faster than any other government entitlement. Do a google search and you can easily find unbelievable examples of fraud an waste in both programs and since the recipients pay little or nothing for coverage/benefits, they generally don't care about costs.

If you want full choice, buy your own.

Here is an interesting read on the entitlement mindset (which is on display in this forum by the many duplicate posts of this alert on chairs):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Mar23.html
Well, actx, first, I hope like crazy that you never find yourself in a situation where you are literally trapped in a helpless body and must depend on the nation to which you had once gladly contributed as a productive, functioning member.

The sense of "entitlement" is actually a matter of desperation for those, the vast majority of whom, never caused themselves to, nor elected to literally live their entire days in a contraption that serves as virtually their only hope of any semblance of life.

Frankly, I find your tone and brazen post offensive and inordinately political. Perhaps you'd like to introduce yourself to the community before you pepper us with your broadstroked, accusatory presumptions.

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