I don't fear the tax collector. I am getting great services for my tax money: airports, roads, rails, post office, FDIC, FDA, EPA, NHTSA, OSHA, DoD, DoE, FBI, etc, etc....
If healthcare could be added to that list, it would be great. It would be great if we didn't have to worry about being condemned to the hell called 'pre-existing conditon'. It would be great if we didn't have to worry about losing health care if we get laid off; or worry about going bankrupt if anyone in the family gets a bout of cancer.
I am sorry the notion of universal healthcare clashes with your selfish libertarian religion.

You must have written this too:

I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE SHITHEEL

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the US department of energy. I then took a shower in the clean water provided by the municipal water utility.

After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC regulated channels to see what the national weather service of the national oceanographic and atmospheric administration determined the weather was going to be like using satellites designed, built, and launched by the national aeronautics and space administration.

I watched this while eating my breakfast of US department of agriculture inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the food and drug administration.

At the appropriate time as regulated by the US congress and kept accurate by the national institute of standards and technology and the US naval observatory, I get into my national highway traffic safety administration approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal departments of transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the environmental protection agency, using legal tender issed by the federal reserve bank.

On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the US postal service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the department of labor and the occupational safety and health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to ny house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and fire marshal’s inspection, and which has not been plundered of all it’s valuables thanks to the local police department.

I then log on to the internet which was developed by the defense advanced research projects administration and post on freerepublic.com and fox news forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can’t do anything right.

Alright Icemilkcoffee & nanatehay, if you 2 want to kid yourselvs about the govt doing great things then go ahead, just don't try to impose your nonsense on the rest of us.

For example, maybe I wouldn't drive on the govt roads if private roads were allowed. I'd rather not have the police that patrol them looking for any excuse to practice their highway robbery on me.

Best of all, the whole reason we have a healthcare crisis is the govt's interventions. The medical, pharma, & insurance industries are among the most heavily regulated there are. Not to mention that the govt pays for about 1/2 of all healthcare already. This is no free market, this is the failure of intervention. Why anyone would want to give the Bozos that messed up healthcare more power over it is beyond me.

Stop dreaming about these great things that you think the govt delivers & realize that they are just a corrupt gang of criminals that are destroying the country.

icemilk, nanatehay, please, don't rile him up. You will just inflate his already heightened sense of importance. There is no convincing a libertarian of anything sensible.

This morning I was awoken by the sun. I took a shower in the water from my well. Fortunately I live in an area where I can chose my electricity provider, so at least I have that choice.

I no longer get any TV, since the government mandated switch to digital, the signals no longer reach me. I note the signs of what the weather may hold for the day.

I have breakfast of eggs from the neighbor, bacon from another neighbor, and raw milk from yet another neighbor, all of which was obtained by barter. You may not be able to get raw milk where you live if the Department of Agriculture will not allow it. The bacon and eggs you buy will probably be raised in concentrated animal feeding operations in inhumane conditions and treated with a regimen of antibiotics and growth hormones to increase production and keep the animals from dying in numbers too large to adversely affect profit. Regulations prevent this from being labeled, though.

I take my unlicensed, unregistered tractor to the field to work. While working, I pause for a moment to wonder why Congress has established Daylight Savings time for eight months of the year while Standard time only lasts for four months.

While we educate our two daughters continuously, we will begin officially home schooling next year. I don't worry about them being abducted or harassed when playing outside, and I can leave my house for days at a time without locking the door despite there being no municipal police.

I wish I could go to the doctor and simply pay a visit fee, but the system is so convoluted it requires insurance even to see the specially licensed medicine man.

I guess my questions to nanatehay would be why do I have to pay for your life and why would you want to complicate mine?

Thx, Mik.