Minta

I want to stay away from political topics, but when someone hits the bullseye on a vital issue, quoting them saves me the trouble of repeating the whole thing multiple times. That's what Matt Taibbi's done on health care reform:

This whole business, it was a litmus test for whether or not we even have a functioning government. Here we had a political majority in congress and a popular president armed with oodles of political capital and backed by the overwhelming sentiment of perhaps 150 million Americans, and this government could not bring itself to offend ten thousand insurance men in order to pass a bill that addresses an urgent emergency. What’s left?

Move abroad?

Get rich? Then you can pay out of pocket for the best care available - just like the people who have scuppered the best chance for government-backed health insurance in decades.

The NYT (I won't link to that fish-wrap) reports a poll stating that public support is beginning to wane for reform - mainly because of propaganda that makes state-run care or state-backed insurance sound like a prison sentence. Why do people always buy that old chestnut about government-backed care limiting your choices? These same people usually can't afford any kind of decent care on their own, and go into tremendous debt because of what their terrible insurance doesn't cover or disallows after the fact.

How could they do worse?