Having some form of socialized health care so people don't go bankrupt
paying medical bills? Being able to provide care for people before they
need to go to an emergency room because they don't have a means of
obtaining health care otherwise?

I have always wondered why it is not mandatory for doctors to provide a
certain amount of pro-bono work like lawyers supposedly do. I guess you
run the risk of attracting melingerers, but maybe requiring them to work a
day a week at a low-income clinic would be helpful to the populace.

Seems like you sometimes hear stories of the local "country" doctor who did things for free, but that was probably before malpractice suits became
cost prohibitive.

Providing school lunches so kids who otherwise wouldn't get a
meal can go through school with something in their stomach and learn
more effectively?

If they were to come up with programs that teamed with local farm banks, or farmers, they might even get better food than the other kids do.

I've been called far left on the Fido Politics board.

Compared to an ultra-MAGA, just about everyone is "far left." ;)


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The "answer" to all of that, by the Left, is to increase taxes on all of
us, rather than STOPPING the corruption and blatant mis-management.
That's a problem for me. <SHRUG>

Me also. Lately, the knee-jerk reaction to the corruption and
mis-management is to pull the plugs on the programs all together, which
still does nothing to the politicians who were abusing them while hurting
those that actually did benefit.


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Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sat May 31 2025 11:08 am

I have always wondered why it is not mandatory for doctors to provide a certain amount of pro-bono work like lawyers supposedly do. I guess you
run the risk of attracting melingerers, but maybe requiring them to work a

what are you gay or something? if you are looking to get a boner go to a bathhouse or something.

anyways, yearly physicals are free. or you can do what i did and get your free yearly physical and have your nurse practitioner run up a huge bill just because you mentioned that you pulled a muscle cutting grass going up a hill.

that bitch did an ekg and all kinds of shit. unwarranted.

Seems like you sometimes hear stories of the local "country" doctor who did things for free, but that was probably before malpractice suits became
cost prohibitive.

do you work for free? i dont.

Providing school lunches so kids who otherwise wouldn't get a
meal can go through school with something in their stomach and learn
more effectively?

what? who? a doctor did that? usually there's some program in schools for discounted or free lunches. we all pay for it for them in some way.
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Providing school lunches so kids who otherwise wouldn't get a
meal can go through school with something in their stomach and learn more effectively?

what? who? a doctor did that? usually there's some program in schools for discounted or free lunches. we all pay for it for them in some way.

That isn't my quote. You'd have to ask the OP.


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Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: Dumas Walker to MRO on Sun Jun 01 2025 09:58 am

That isn't my quote. You'd have to ask the OP.

oh sorry i was replying too fast.
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Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: Dumas Walker to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sat May 31 2025 11:08 am

I have always wondered why it is not mandatory for doctors to provide a certain amount of pro-bono work like lawyers supposedly do. I guess you
run the risk of attracting melingerers, but maybe requiring them to work a day a week at a low-income clinic would be helpful to the populace.

I think we should pass a bill to have car mechanics, software developers and system administrators work a day per week in some low-income project. It would be certainly helpful for the population to have a car mechanic fix people's cars at half the price the repair is worth XD


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Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: Dumas Walker to GAMGEE on Sat May 31 2025 11:10 am

Me also. Lately, the knee-jerk reaction to the corruption and mis-management is to pull the plugs on the programs all together, which still does nothing to the politicians who were abusing them while hurting those that actually did benefit.

I think Milei has already shown the way, not we just need more people to follow.

For those who don't know, the way is to identify things that are broken and, rather than attempting to fix them, consider them unsalvageable, amputate them outright and then build something anew.

So say, airlines are socialized and they are losing a lot of money and also failed to provide service. The Milei way is to declare it unsalvageable and separate it from the government entirely to prevent the cancer from affecting the administration. A good approach he is taking is giving this stuff to the workers - yeah, now every worker is a shareholder of the company, just as both commies and nazies want it, and the tax payer needs not pay for it unless they want to take a plane.

Or maybe a government agency is so bloated and costly and failing to provide service. The soultion? Sack fucking everybody out and rebuild a replacement from the ground up. Recent experimentation shows they could replace their tax collecting bodies with new ones that weighted 75% less or so.

Viva la libertad, carajo!


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Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Sat May 31 2025 07:09 pm

Providing school lunches so kids who otherwise wouldn't get a
meal can go through school with something in their stomach and learn more effectively?

what? who? a doctor did that? usually there's some program in schools for discounted or free lunches. we all pay for it for them in some way.

Fun fact, we used to have a Doctor here who would work like a mule in order to raise money, then he would periodically do trips to Africa in order to provide charity service over there.


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Re: Re: Most memorable modern
By: Arelor to MRO on Tue Jun 03 2025 11:53 am

Fun fact, we used to have a Doctor here who would work like a mule in order to raise money, then he would periodically do trips to Africa in order to provide charity service over there.

a lot of times they get paid by the country. i knew a guy who would go over there and do medical shit and even pull teeth. it was like a paid vacation for him.
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