In article m,
David Nebenzahl wrote:
On 12/17/2009 5:06 AM spake thus:

Unfortunately, the price of everything made in the US includes paying
for healthcare and the tremendous waste in the system - just
fighting over work-relatedness costs billions. If we had a one-payer
system (like Medicare), with built in serious audits, we could make
cheaper good stuff. Ain't gonna happen any time soon.

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What's needed is simple, as Sanders explained: a Medicare-for-all
system. Like the one Taiwan adopted, modeled on our own program but
expanded to all citizens.

And yes, ain't gonna happen here. The American sheeple have been too
well inoculated against "socialism".

Because under all the accumulated material wealth of the USA beats the
heart of a 3rd world country.

Last Tuesday NPR aired a snippet from a DC "tea party" protesting the
health care plan where a guy says "We fought the British over a 3
percent tea tax. We might as well bring the British back,".
Hell, at least everyone could get health care.

It's probably just my perception, but his round of national vitriol has
brought out alot of people who hate people--in the abstract, the idea of
people--that someone, somewhere, might get something they don't
deserve--and they won't stand for it anymore.

m