Just been dealing with the pharmacy and our health insurance

Can anyone give me an example of ANY problem that we'd have with socialized medicine that we don't have right now with our current health care system?

I mean, if I'm going to have to go through byzantine, bizzare, arbitrary bureaucracy and have to bang my head against walls and argue with people to have simple, commonsense health care taken care of, I'd like to at least know that it was available to everyone.

Candlepins for Dollars

So, this past Saturday night, I saw something on television actually worth watching.

Bowling.

See, here in New England, we have this sport. It's called candlepin bowling, and it's been said that "candlepin is to ten-pin as baseball is to softball."

Around here, the kind of bowling that you all outside of New England call "bowling", we call it "ten-pin."
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