libertarian to the bone...except with health care...

[Objectivist]

This is an unfortunate myth, which those who want healthcare for only the few keep indoctrinating the sheeple.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging-associated_diseases
http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/equal/Launch_Posters/equalslideslansley/sld003.htm

You can take the Obesity Rate and the morbidly obese and factor that into the equation here in the United States. So what myth were you referring too exactly?

I'm not against health care for all, we have it now and the criminal illegal aliens that have overwhelmed the Los Angeles area emergency rooms have shown that to be fact. Dozens of LA area emergency rooms have closed their doors because they don't get paid for services rendered. I know that government intervention and regulation prevents the market from running properly, maybe you don't get that part?

If I as a former Medic can tell a Doctor what is wrong with me and he wrongly prescribes me drugs I didn't ask for, or need, then we pay too much for health care. I knew what I needed and if I were in a number of other countries, I could have walked up to the counter at the pharmacy and purchased what I required, but here the government prevents me from purchasing things as mundane as Motrin or Penicillin.