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[madscience.livejournal.com]

So, whattya say, America? Think we can hit 40 straight years of neocons in the White House?

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[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

So everyone's a neo-con country and the U.S. is just catching up. Or you're a very silly person.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

The US isn't "catching up" to other countries with regard to health care. It's charging full speed in the opposite direction.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

I feel that I'm failing to understand where you're coming from. What's your beef?

[madscience.livejournal.com]

The private health insurance industry is the reason health care was so expensive in the first place. Instead of destroying it or undermining it with a public non-profit competitor, we enshrined it in law and made participation mandatory... the worst thing we could have possibly done, even worse than doing nothing.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

America wasn't ready to join the rest of the world because UHC is a terrible tyranny we couldn't bear. Or something. Even the Democrats couldn't back it. I'll agree with you that it's not at a good end point but something had to be done to plug the huge coverage holes.

I'll agree the free market is no place to administer a service that should be treated as a utility rather than a commodity.

[madscience.livejournal.com]

The Democrats didn't back UHC it because their billionaire puppeteers didn't want them to. The billionaires couldn't get an insurance mandate passed when the Reps were sponsoring it. So they changed the script a little, and stupid Dem voters with the memory of a goldfish swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.