[Buddha-l] Health care plans, as envisionsed by Buddhists

[jkirk]

"Still two-eyed after all these years, "

What? No Richard, we all know that you are really three-eyed.

JK
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On Aug 15, 2009, at 11:31 AM, Alberto Todeschini wrote:

> So you'll know that National Healthcare is a breeding ground
for 
> terrorism?
>
>
http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/national-healthcare-a-breeding-
groun
> d-for-terrorism/

Thanks for sharing that with us, Alberto. It's a pleasure to
watch such a tightly reasoned presentation, with a total absence
of formal or informal fallacies. It is surely one of the finest
moments in Fox News's efforts to present us with fair and
balanced commentary.

About thirty years ago, I was playing baseball in Toronto and got
hit in the eye by a fast-moving ball (thrown at me by a student
majoring in Islamic studies---my first experience with Muslim
hostilities towards Buddhism). This was back in the days when
eyeglasses were made of glass. No wimpy plastic lenses back then!
Anyway, the baseball shattered the glass, and I wound up with
several hundred slivers of glass in my eyeball. I was rushed to
the nearest emergency room, where I spent about three hours in an
operating room having glass pulled out of my eye. (I suppose it
is my patriotic duty to report that I had to wait five days in
the emergency room in this socialist hospital and witnessed the
death by starvation of a dozen grandmothers who had suffered
heart attacks several months earlier and were still waiting to be
seen, but in fact I was seen immediately. On two other occasions
when I was in a Canadian emergency room with an injury I was also
seen immediately. The only time I have had to wait in an
emergency room for several hours was in the United States, where
I had to wait while the officials sorted out my health insurance
and fussed over whether I had a proper referral.)

The surgeon who pulled the glass out of my eye in that
socialistic Canadian hospital was a Sufi Muslim with an Arabic
accent. As the Fox News piece you sent reveals, countries with
government-run health-care systems have to import Muslim doctors,
because Christian and Jewish doctors all move to America, where
they can make more money in a free- enterprise system. And we
mustn't forget that several terrorists have been Muslim medical
doctors who spent all their spare time reading jihadist tracts on
taxpayer money.

I never realized until I saw the video you alerted me to what a
dangerous situation I was in, especially given that I told the
surgeon that I was a Buddhist, albeit a fake one with no regard
for Buddha- vacana. I consider myself damn lucky the Sufi doctor
did not stick an ice pick in my eyeball and then blow up the
operating theatre by detonating the explosive-filled vest he was
no doubt wearing under his surgical gown.

Still two-eyed after all these years,
Richard
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