Hoo! Haa! looks like Obama-nation's press conference suffered from
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> ...Jim Thompson
In the fall, his teleprompter will be saying "I just want it done by next year".
Next year, again his teleprompter will be saying "I just want it done before I leave office in 2012..."
And in 2013, his teleprompter will say: "I wish it could have been done before people got smart and voted me out of office!"
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Funny how right-wing American's want to keep on paying twice a much for the same lelvel of health care as the French and Germans enjoy. The only obvious motivation seems to be hatred of the poor - the current American scheme leaves some 43 million US citizens uninsured, and stuck with remarkably poor health care, where the French and German schemes cover the whole population (at half the price) and provide everybody with the sort of health care that only well-off Americans enjoy.
As dog-in-the-manger attitudes go, this is pretty extreme.
Quite apart from being cheaper, universal health care offers the advantage of providing treatment for the sick poor when they first feel sick, rather than when they feel sick enough to want to make the choice between their money (such as it is) and their lives. America has some chronic health problems that France, Germany and the UK haven't had to deal with.
The health insurance industry creams off half the money the the US consumer pays for health care, and has a vested interest in the current - expensive - system, so it isn't surprising that they are paying for lots of anti-reform propaganda. What is surprising is the number of right-wing nitwits who don't realise that they are being suckered by this propaganda. It is hard to believe that they are all as blinkered as Jim Yanik and Jim Thompson.
-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
Cheers! Rich
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