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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 6, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> At our ages health insurance would cost four times it otherwise  
> takes us to
> live.  Why mirthlessly enslave oneself to such a system?  Better,  
> says I, to
> live well while one can than to live half-assed because of a fear of  
> something
> going wrong.

And there it is, my philosophy well expressed. As I have noted, I do  
not pay for disease insurance; I use the money I might otherwise give  
to an insurance company to obtain the best quality food I can find. I  
eat very well. Good beer, too.