We are not really that far apart on the issues. I do not want single payer. I do not want the Government setting conditions on the care I get (as in do this or we won't cover you.) I also see tort reform as the biggest single cost reducer available. Stop making the health care institution as a whole pay and pay when things go wrong because they will, that's life. This particularly I agree with though,
"I have determined my own health care strategy, by the way: I am eating carefully and exercising to keep myself as healthy as possible for as long as possible."
This is the best approach possible IMO. I met an 83 year old Camp Hostess this weekend while camping. Out here they have people who live in campsites and take care of them as well as help campers. She was not in a big RV. She was in tents living "the old fashioned" way. Frankly, she put me and most people to shame. She cooked in a dutch oven, drew her water from the campground well, and scrubbed the "methane pits" daily (her description of course.) She had no use for doctors. None at all. She said she simply had to live to be 110 because her Chevy LUV pickup was guaranteed to get 500,000 miles on a single engine and by God she was determined it would live up to that promise though it was only half way there. I only hope I will be that spry and feisty when I am 83.
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"I have determined my own health care strategy, by the way: I am eating carefully and exercising to keep myself as healthy as possible for as long as possible."
This is the best approach possible IMO. I met an 83 year old Camp Hostess this weekend while camping. Out here they have people who live in campsites and take care of them as well as help campers. She was not in a big RV. She was in tents living "the old fashioned" way. Frankly, she put me and most people to shame. She cooked in a dutch oven, drew her water from the campground well, and scrubbed the "methane pits" daily (her description of course.) She had no use for doctors. None at all. She said she simply had to live to be 110 because her Chevy LUV pickup was guaranteed to get 500,000 miles on a single engine and by God she was determined it would live up to that promise though it was only half way there. I only hope I will be that spry and feisty when I am 83.