http://crookedtimber.org/2004/07/29/bloviator-poll-now-up-and-running/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://crookedtimber.org/2004/07/29/bloviator-poll-now-up-and-running/comment-page-1/#comment-37022 PG Fri, 30 Jul 2004 07:31:50 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/wp/?p=1954#comment-37022 I'll take whatever label, as long as it's applied to my <a href="http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com/2003/05/we-havent-had-this-for-while-me.html">view</a> of <a href="http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com/2003/01/quick-takeover-of-countrys-oil-fields.html">Breaux</a>'s <a href="http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com/2004/01/more-lazy-email-blogging-documenting.html">plan</a>. When I did bioethics, I liked "continuous health care coverage," on the premise that no one in America has to be born outside a hospital; everyone will give a delivering mother a bed and a doctor. So why can't we keep that going past birth? My new preference is: "cooperative health care responsibility," which I think is what happens with Breaux's plan. The government forces people who can afford insurance to be in the pool, and takes care of those who cannot afford it. I’ll take whatever label, as long as it’s applied to my view of Breaux’s plan. When I did bioethics, I liked “continuous health care coverage,” on the premise that no one in America has to be born outside a hospital; everyone will give a delivering mother a bed and a doctor. So why can’t we keep that going past birth? My new preference is: “cooperative health care responsibility,” which I think is what happens with Breaux’s plan. The government forces people who can afford insurance to be in the pool, and takes care of those who cannot afford it.

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