i'm going to cut through the bullshit of nationwide health care with one paragraph

[rone]

In many ways, foreign health-care models are not really "foreign" to America, because our crazy-quilt health-care system uses elements of all of them. For Native Americans or veterans, we're Britain: The government provides health care, funding it through general taxes, and patients get no bills. For people who get insurance through their jobs, we're Germany: Premiums are split between workers and employers, and private insurance plans pay private doctors and hospitals. For people over 65, we're Canada: Everyone pays premiums for an insurance plan run by the government, and the public plan pays private doctors and hospitals according to a set fee schedule. And for the tens of millions without insurance coverage, we're Burundi or Burma: In the world's poor nations, sick people pay out of pocket for medical care; those who can't pay stay sick or die.

If there are problems within the Obama Administration's healthcare plan, let's identify them and argue about them.  But let's knock off the goddamn FUD.  The Red Scare's been over for decades, OK?

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why do you hate American Guacamole????

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

Don't YOU know

Cylon's Don't Surf!

And therefore you hatred of veterans, by suggesting that Socialist WarStuffThingiePooh were an acceptable way to crush the feeDOME out of the welfare queens in the DOD is just more proof of how totally IRRATIONAL you evil liberals ARE!

We should send your type back to your GodHating America Bashing SpaceAlienBrainWaveSuckingBeastCreaturesFromPlanetZorkon Country where you belong!!!

We are not going to sit by while you Obamanites push granny under the flying saucer!

And just because You PINKOs think the red scare is over merely prooves what sorts of Puppety Toadies of the Revisionist Ideological Deviationalist Reactionaries you have always been!

But other than that, a nice write up.