Neanderpundit

Sliced some deer up to soak through the night and tomorow,and hope to have it ready for the dehydrator tomorrow.

Started with 3 lbs, so figuring for shrinkage, I should end up with… carry the three… four ounces.

about the fact that a lot of the people in positions of power in the churches (Catholic and otherwise) supported the health Care bullshit.

And there is a good deal of truth to that; there are a powerful lot of those retards who thought this was a good idea.

I’m willing to cut them a little slack however, for a couple of reasons people don’t think too much about.

Find the nastiest area close to you, be it the south side, or downtown Motown, or wherever. Drive around with cash sticking out of your pocket, and get mugged and shot.

When you wake up, you will probably be in a Catholic hospital, or at least a hospital affiliated with a religious group. The “for profit” hospitals tend to be in nice, clean, well heeled neighborhoods where the income is high. Why should they care for those people who can’t pay their bills?

Those hospitals have good trauma units. They generally have a good ER. Their ICU is usually well managed and well staffed.
And they don’t pull a profit, and they never turn anyone away.

Oh, they’ll do their best to bill everyone that shows up, but talk to the people that do the billing and see how often the hospital gets paid for emergent care. And a poweful lot of people in those areas use the emergent care as thir primary physician- illegals, the homeless, the dregs of society. The Catholic Church and many other religious organizations (And a much smaller number of non religious not-for-profits) are the ones who have been providing that care for a powerful long time, and their reward is increasing government interference in the way they do business.

So yeah. A lot of Catholic leadership has opined for universal health care. Why not? They’ve been providing it, for almost as long as there has been health care. I bet they’d like someone else to carry a little of the burden once in a while.

No, this does not excuse stupid, but I felt like it would be a nice idea if people actually thought of this.