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1. over 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Private health insurance is a way to make a few rich people richer while you get sicker. A government health scheme, as found in most civilised countries, is a way to make the system fairer for all, not just for the rich. It is a way to take the gamble out of health care, where it should never have been in the first place.

   The profit motive in health needs to be replaced by a caring-for-people’s-health motive.

2. over 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Everybody has such a small brain, that it is possible for any one person to know anything. How anybody can claim to know all the answers, and keep a straight face, is therefore one of life’s deep mysteries. For every such person there are relevant facts that they are not aware of. And there is someone else on the planet who just as fervently believes the eact opposite, just as certain of their rightness.

   Shakespeare seemed to be on the right track when had Hamlet say: “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”.

3. over 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   As one of the chronologically gifted who has passed the 60 years mark, I can tell Nighthawk that life is much more enjoyable now than it was in any of the angst-ridden earlier years.

4. over 15 years ago on Non Sequitur

   Scarecrow?

   I thought it was Michael Jackson.