Re: You wonder why we're scared?

Wildepad wrote:
> An associate professor in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics
> program at Duke University did an independent analysis of Obama's
> healthcare reform.

This health policy "debate" is as lame as it was back in ‘64 and ‘65 when the business of approving Medicare with no age exclusions --health care for everybody-- was debated.

The first American President to propose a national health care system was that old red radical Teddy Roosevelt, who proposed copying the very successful system Otto von Bismarck implemented in Germany in the 1880s.

FDR wanted to implement such a program along with Social Security, but a number of his advisors suggested he wait a while.

Every time the subject comes up, the cry of "Oh no!! Socialized medicine!!!" rises up from the right, and to date universal health care has been defeated. Meanwhile Germany --and most of the rest of the world-- has rational health care.

Maybe it'll happen in this country, in my life time, but it won't until the Demrats grow some hair and make it happen. Pass it with a simple majority, let the current heirs of the Know Nothings do their filibuster, and wait them out. "Bipartisanship" is impossible with the current bath of wingers, and time's a'wasting so long as the Dems give even lip service to it.

Congress should pass a bill with a public option, Obama should sign it, and the wingers should eat it.

Wunsta pawna time conservatives argues that passing child labor laws would be the downfall of capitalism. Their current claims about health care are every bit as ludicrous.

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