there's no such thing as something cheaper than mandatory insurance

anyone who doesn't get insurance is someone who thinks they don't need insurance. while those who get insurance really need it. so costs are spread amongst fewer people and they go up, if you respect the "freedom" of some freeloaders to be stupid and irresponsible

then those assholes without insurance break their arm and get sick anyway, and then they avoid the bill because they can't afford it, and the taxpayer has to bail out the hospital

so you pay for it anyway, in the most wasteful, stupid way possible, and you pay for irresponsible freeloaders

that's why healthcare is such a joke in the usa and is so incredibly expensive

now forcing 50 year old to buy childbirth insurance does sound crazy so you fix that specific problem, you don't jettison the entire superior idea

any questions?

this is extremely ignorant and dangerous advice

all of the concerns this idiot lists do not even begin to compare to the relief of getting psychiatric care for your condition

please mod the malignant and stupid comment above into oblivion

he's explaining a shitty reality, not condoning it

ever hear of the phrase "shooting the messenger"?

irrational fear has been the keystone to all patriotism

nothing american about a human phenomenon

that's naive

every govt in the world, every govt that has ever existed, every govt that will ever exist, has sensitive secrets

all the intelligence snowden has decays in value over time. the longer he waits to release it, the less useful it is

knowing all of the spies of regime {X} doesn't matter if half of them have been replaced/ retired/ killed/ lost

knowing the battle plans of country {Y} doesn't matter if country {Y} did a new analysis in the interim

knowing about leader {Z}'s mistresses doesn't matter if we now have leader {W} in charge

etc.

the usa has every incentive to have delay the release of snowden's cache

give it a decade or two

russia gets more decrepit, china gets more powerful

china is not going to do anything until it's an easy grab

that's some simple nice pat hindsight

i'm sure all the countries where they were stuck under the failed system for decades were happy there was no need to resist and it would just go away on it's own

heck they should have just let the entire western hemisphere, the usa even, fall to communism and just let things run their course, right?

are you telling me the chinese have common culture with coral sponges?

no one lives there. no one ever did. it's a fucking joke that china claims these atolls clearly the property of the philippines

as for russia being an ally, you're historically ignorant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_split

i wasn't thinking about tom clancy, i was thinking about recent history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict

not to mention manchuria and beyond has been a war field between russia, japan, and china for decades in recent history

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Port_Arthur

china, today, has border arguments with all its neighbors, all around

but russia?

shhh

all quiet on the western front

ominous

ruling?

they floated boats there

they made maps

that's not rule

i was going to argue with you but...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

you are correct sir

you're about 75 years too late

isolationism's heyday has come and gone

appeasement doesn't work. it just emboldens aggressors

it's POTS

the world is everyone's interest

you nip problems when they are small and far away, or when they are large and on your border

those are your choices in life

i'm glad the usa is involved heavily in the world- by that i do not mean wars, i mean policy questions, like diplomacy with iran

you make enemies sure. you also make a lot more friends

isolationism is a failed, loser's attitude