Dept. of Motor Vehicle Style Health Care

[Parthenon]

I do prefer some good old fashion home surgery. I actually performed a bit on my hand a a few years back with a razor blade, a pair of tweezers, neosporin, hydrogen peroxide, a lighter, and a vast quanity of paper towels. Worked quite well actually.

Ok, is there anything you can't do?

Removing glass from my hand after a drunken evening at the bar isn't exactly rocket science...

[Dyakovo]

I do prefer some good old fashion home surgery. I actually performed a bit on my hand a a few years back with a razor blade, a pair of tweezers, neosporin, hydrogen peroxide, a lighter, and a vast quanity of paper towels. Worked quite well actually.

Ok, is there anything you can't do?

Don't be silly...
Oh course not, there's also nothing he has not already done.

[Parthenon]

I take it you two don't go drinking very often...

[Galloism]

I do prefer some good old fashion home surgery. I actually performed a bit on my hand a a few years back with a razor blade, a pair of tweezers, neosporin, hydrogen peroxide, a lighter, and a vast quanity of paper towels. Worked quite well actually.

Ok, is there anything you can't do?

Removing glass from my hand after a drunken evening at the bar isn't exactly rocket science...

Oh, well I wouldn't have lumped that in with surgery.

I took a splinter out of my hand once.

[Ifreann]

I do prefer some good old fashion home surgery. I actually performed a bit on my hand a a few years back with a razor blade, a pair of tweezers, neosporin, hydrogen peroxide, a lighter, and a vast quanity of paper towels. Worked quite well actually.

Ok, is there anything you can't do?

Removing glass from my hand after a drunken evening at the bar isn't exactly rocket science...

Anyone else remember that guy from back when we were on jolt? He made a thread about performing minor surgeries on yourself, and told people that he had some skin condition that caused him to get lots of moles or something. Apparently he used craft knives and disinfectant to cut the moles off regularly. The thread turned into 6 pages of people, including an actual doctor(Fass) telling him what a terrible idea it was. Funny stuff.

[Kyronea]

I ABSOLUTELY HATE having to physically go to my state's Department of Motor Vehicles. I think Steven Spielberg may have had it right when he put the entrance to Hell at a DMV, in an episode of "Pinky and the Brain".

As I've mentioned in a previous OP and poll, I prefer to have poll respondents read the OP, rather than just clicking a poll choice in an automatic, or knee-jerk reaction. If you don't care for my method, please send me a NS telegram instead of posting on the topic thread.

So, here's the question for everyone concerned with the health care debate: If a new government run health care system were to be managed like the Department of Motor Vehicles, would you...

Answer A. Prefer to do a self-surgery at home with rusty implements or quietly die at home.
Answer B. Happily stand on numerous lines while going through the system, singing.
Answer C. Empty your bank account to travel to another country for medical treatment.
Answer D. Stand on numerous lines, going through the system, grumbling to every civil servant along the way.
Answer E. I am a sheep.
Answer F. It's time for a revolution!

Answer G: Massive strawman.



Your argument is based on a serious fallacy, that is assuming that government-provided healthcare requires poorly managed bureaucracy and is therefore automatically worse than private healthcare, despite the fact that private healthcare often has the same sort of slowness about it and that neither private nor government-prvided requires itself to be poorly managed.

[Kyronea]

I do prefer some good old fashion home surgery. I actually performed a bit on my hand a a few years back with a razor blade, a pair of tweezers, neosporin, hydrogen peroxide, a lighter, and a vast quanity of paper towels. Worked quite well actually.

Thumbless Pete Crabbe?

[The Northern Baltic]

F: I'm an Anarchist.

[NERVUN]

Hmm... Japan's got public health care and their own version of a DMV. I've never had to play wait in the line for health care, but think I actually perfer Nevada's DMV over the Public Safety group and that evil driving test.