hospital bills = done

[juldea]

Hooray for good news!

My Free Care application finally went through and was approved, so my hospital bills are now done with.

Although, the fact of this brings up a lot of internal debates that I must settle about the ethics of my actions. Do I believe in such a socialized heath care option? If not, does it further my goals to have used the system even though I disagreed with it? Well, that's bad wording. Of course it furthered my goals; I'm less in debt. But at the cost of what integrity? And, if I do believe in the worth of socialized heath care... well, that brings up a lot of things that I thought I had settled.

Because, you see, Having Things Settled is The Goal. *meaningful look*

Comments

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[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Um, how exactly will you not participate in our society?

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Move. Or go "off the grid". :P

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[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Is that a Matrix reference? I have a vision of you moving into the sewers of some big city, or maybe moving in with a militia in Wyoming or somewhere. It'd be kind of cool to have a friend of whom I could say, "She's such a hardcore capitalist that she moved underground!"

Even though it really makes no sense, typed out.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

It's actually a Terminator 3 reference, although I suppose it could've been used in other movies. But that's the general sense, yeah. Stop paying taxes and therefore stop using services that taxes pay for (although I realize the impossibility in this) - do something like a militia (although without the violence base). Living underground might be neat, although HELLO VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY! ;)

"She's such a hardcore capitalist that she moved underground!" makes me giggle.

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[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Wait, what's that "therefore" doing in there? Oh, I see, I'm with you, it's the ideal Julia world. I was confused until I read on. Perhaps I should read comments in their entirety before responding, in the future. Maybe I should delete my running commentary. Not likely.

I now have a vision of you living technically underground, but right below the surface, with a glass ceiling. It would have some sort of fancy sliding cover for modesty's sake when necessary, of course, or then again maybe not. Who knows. Maybe it's an underground reverse commune.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Heh. I reply after reading the entire comment, but I find your style more interesting :)

Your reverse-commune idea is very neat. Perhaps instead of a round house I'll have an underground house - or I can combine them and have an underground round house!