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November 12, 2009

The HEALTH CARE DEBATE, MADE SIMPLE.


Erin Bruns and Bruce Luttrell own Bruce's Burritos (Slogan: "Be Happy! Be Healthy! Eat Burritos!") in Yarmouth. They contend that if they ran their restaurant the way the muckety mucks run the healthcare industry, they'd have been out of business long ago:

If I ran my business this way, I would charge different individuals at different rates, give them different levels of service, and, if I felt like it, after they paid I would reserve the right to deny them a burrito because I had someone else offering me more money. ...

If I ran my restaurant that way, I'd hand you a tortilla and send you across town for your rice and beans, and to another place for your salsa...

In the burrito biz, we could just add on what we think the customer wants; surely she wants guacamole for $15 extra, and if I don't think that she has ordered enough for her family, I'll just throw in two more quesadillas for $30. If I liked, I could run up the price further by charging them for each grain of rice, for me to take CEO golf vacations.

And you can definitely kiss the free pre-meal chips and salsa goodbye.






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    Posted by Orbit December 4, 2009
ROFL! Just label single-payer 'socialized health care' like Fox 'News' tactics. BOOGABOOGABOOGA! The US is #37 in the world in health care, and the current providers are forecast to break the economy- move along, no inconvenient truths to look at here! Include feminization of a male name because you think women are inferior. Hey, make an ad hominem (mistaken) reference to my sexual preference again because you think gays are inferior. You can take the boy out of The Fatherland but you can't take eugenics out of the boy. Children, the elderly, gays, gypsys, Jews, blacks, homos, Poles, halt, lame, developmentally disabled and those with with pre-exisiting conditions disrobe and line up on the right for a 'warm shower.' That'd take care of their lazy butts.

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