My health care input

[Cane Pole]

"Let's not complicate health care beyond all reason. It ought to be four pages long. The first page should state who gets it. The second page could tell us how much it is going to cost. The third, who we thank if it succeeds. And the fourth page will state who is responsible and what their exact punishment is if it doesn't work."

I wonder if in any of those one thousand plus pages mentions SSS Tonic. That, and castor oil, was our heath plan in the '50s. The castor oil was administered daily to ward off coughs, croup, rickets, warts and evil spirits. The SSS Tonic was for everything else! I kid you not. Nobody knows for sure exactly what the paregoric elixir contained but I guarantee you it could cool you down if you had a fever or warm you up if you had the chills. It was great for diarrhea; and equally effective if you were constipated. You could drink it, rub it on your chest or mix it with a spider web to make a compress to stop the bleeding. We sprayed any leftover SSS on our fence rows to kill the weeds.

Kes

[Billbob]

i took a lot of castor oil as a kid

[LBM]

i took a lot of castor oil as a kid

I can recall having to gag down big spoonfulls of cod liver oil as a kid.

[Cane Pole]

What I am saying is kids now days are loosing their "natural" immunity. Too much Gameboy, not enough marbles. Dirt and sweat was part of my life (and still is).

Bring back Caster oil and do away with Dr Phil.

[rango]

dr phil is a laugh. how can anyone advise people on their problems when his personal life is in such a shambles.

[fish_4_all]

That's the problem, if it isn't complicated it would be easy to get done and congress wouldn't need to spend that much more of our tax dollar coming up with new things to put into something that should be simple.