I’ll give you the last word:  don’t wash your damned chicken.  It is fine and will not kill you.

Interesting.  I’ve had limited experience with prednisone--mostly just for the occasional poison ivy flare-up--so my guess is that because I wasn’t on it for long stretches I didn’t experience the nasty side effects.  That shit sounds soul crushing.

That’s reasonable. It wasn’t until I met my wife that I my emotional maturity had improved considerably. I can say truthfully that I was an emotional train wreck through my mid-20's. 

I’m betting that this has everything to do with a lack of physical chemistry and not just Lonely Nice Guy Syndrome. I got handed this load of bullshit a lot in my 20's, but the bottom line is that they simply weren’t physically attracted to me. When I would look back and consider who they did find attractive, it…

That’s freedumb, my friend.

Whoops.  There you go with all those pesky facts.

This one is just trolling.

Don’t bother.  This idiot is clearly not discussing in good faith, based on other comments on this forum.

Ok, now I know for a fact that you’re not actually interested in discussing this in good faith. Have you ever been poor? Probably not. I have. When you’re poor, you don’t have the ability to make certain healthcare decisions, because those decisions are being made for you. Sick? Tough shit, you can’t afford to see a…

Yeah, now I know you’re just spewing talking points, because this particular red herring comes out all the time, in spite of peer reviewed research proving the opposite. The 80/20 rule isn’t applicable to large employer plans—only to small employers and the individual market—and it has nothing to do with annual…

But, was he Abel?

Doctors and hospitals (and drug companies) are overpaid. That is not in question. However, you do not have an understanding of the fact that the number one driver of increasing costs in US healthcare are the administrative costs of private insurers, which account for upwards of one quarter of total expenditures in…

The Deep State strikes again!

Bingo.  This is also one of the major factors into why single payer is so much cheaper.  They prioritize primary and preventative care over specialists.

Are we Japan?  No, we are not.

Or, try some reality:

The right wing media shitstorm is just over the horizon.

Glen Casada is the speaker now?  Christ, that piece of shit from Williamson County (3rd wealthiest in the nation, BTW) is such a garbage person.  Which, of course, makes him perfect for the job.

We already do it with the VA--and they have higher satisfaction scores than the private hospitals do.

It’s like these assholes have never heard about opportunity cost.  Ask any random sample of people if they’d rather see a doctor for an ailment or minor injury, for little or nothing out of pocket; or if they’d rather do, literally, anything else, and I would bet folding money that an overwhelming majority of them…