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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The sad story
  • Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:11:23 -0600


Though here Mises is talking about milk, I believe that the same principle
applies to healthcare. There is much government control/intrusion
(socialism) without the benefits of the same.

Yes. Doctors and patients are all that is needed. The exceptions like super expensive machines and tests and treatments are in many ways inhuman when their full cost is tabulated.

My personal answer is to be personally responsible for my health, to not buy disease-care insurance, to be prepared monetarily, physically and psychologically for all potential challenges, including the final decision to die.

I've seen a local doctor twice in the last fifteen or twenty years, snake bite and pneumonia. In each case I paid cash for the visit and the treatment. If my many attentions to my well-being somehow fail me and I succumb to a disease that is very expensive to treat, I will execute my exit plan. That plan includes updating my will and trust, saying unhurried goodbyes to everyone, digging a big hole up at the edge of the woods by the dogwood trees, leaving a note that satisfies any legal questions unanswered by the previous activities, and then dying by my own hand, which method I have previously described.

Seems to me you can't fully live until you are fully ready to die if certain circumstances happen.






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