--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can't think of a suitable retort to this since I'm still reeling from your stated > belief that in the US, the poor have just as much access to health care as the > rich.
Did I say that they had "just as much access to health care as the rich"? Or did I say that the poor had access to health care as defined as a basic necessity? Surely, a rich person, for example, can afford a private hospital room whereby a poor person will get placed in a ward. Surely, a rich person will have his or her choice of doctors whereas a poor person won't. BUT: the poor person will NOT be denied basic medical care. Do you know that in the USA over $360 billion a year is spent on just one poverty program -- called Medicaid -- to provide health care to the poor? That's almost twice as much as the entire Canadian federal budget where health care is universally available. And that's just ONE program: Medicaire pays for over 80% of health care costs for seniors... > Someone who believes that will believe anything, It's not a question of believing or not believing but of facts. > so it's not much use > talking to them about critical thinking. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@> wrote: > > > > > > Interesting that at the same time as people on this board try to > > manufacture a > > > big scandal about MMY's education and sleep patterns, and here > > denounce > > > the "myth" that has grown up about such things, another thread > > seriously > > > discusses the myth that Jesus traveled to India (or name the > > country of > > > choice) as it it were probably true. It seems that critical > > thinking is being > > > applied very unevenly. > > > > > > > > > > Gosh. > > > > Applying one standard for a current historical figures who is still > > alive and can, if he chooses to, correct the record and another one > > who has been dead for 2,000 years. > > > > How unfair. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajranatha@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > ? WHo says he did or did not? How would they know? > > > > > > > > Close proximity, maybe snoring. > > > > > > > > It's really just one of many many myths fostered by uncritical > > > > acceptance. What's interesting to me is the pattern of > > accepting > > > > claims as automatically true. Bottom line is charlatans are out > > there > > > > and both have the same name: "teacher". > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
