Since I don't have any karma to give you, all I can do is say "A-freakin'-men!" I wish more people realized that things like Medicare (especially) are just forcing tax-payers to foot the bill for services that are an individuals responsibility. If someone can't afford these services, then by no means should they just be left to die, I don't want to say that, but funds should be obtained through private charities/religious charities (aka "pseudo private charities")/family/friends/neighbors. If all that fails, then I'm (apparently) not smart enough to give a better answer, but I don't see that many "safety nets" failing. YMMV.
I don't buy the "space alien" story for the simple reason that the "Area 51" aliens look too much like us. Bipedal, five fingers, five toes, two eyes, one two holed nose, one mouth. Look at the diversity of life on earth, with hooved animals, pipedaal animals with feathers, squids, six legged insects and eight legged spiders, no legged snakes.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke might tell you: "Similar solutions to a similar problem."
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Since I don't have any karma to give you, all I can do is say "A-freakin'-men!" I wish more people realized that things like Medicare (especially) are just forcing tax-payers to foot the bill for services that are an individuals responsibility. If someone can't afford these services, then by no means should they just be left to die, I don't want to say that, but funds should be obtained through private charities/religious charities (aka "pseudo private charities")/family/friends/neighbors. If all that fails, then I'm (apparently) not smart enough to give a better answer, but I don't see that many "safety nets" failing. YMMV.
I don't buy the "space alien" story for the simple reason that the "Area 51" aliens look too much like us. Bipedal, five fingers, five toes, two eyes, one two holed nose, one mouth. Look at the diversity of life on earth, with hooved animals, pipedaal animals with feathers, squids, six legged insects and eight legged spiders, no legged snakes.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke might tell you: "Similar solutions to a similar problem."