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  • I think it's inevitable that eventually the U.S. will join the rest of the modern world with regard to health care. Obviously it's shameful that one of the wealthiest nations per-capita has so many people who lose all of their assets if they're unlucky enough to have a cancer victim in the house, or who simply cannot afford coverage at all. One of the benefits of being a successful nation should be decreased worry over things like medical care. That we haven't solved this one yet, while so many others have, is a testament to our rigidity of mind. Will this be the time? I dunno. It's certainly more ripe than previous attempts. But eventually, it has to happen... there's just too much suffering hitting too many families for too many years to continue this indefinitely.
  • Right or left they very seldom stand up against the lobbyist, maybe this time they will support public opinion, so we hope. BTW Happy fathers day
  • Don't forget that most Americans "strongly support" Social Security and Medicare, because they have not the foggiest idea about the fundamentals of economics. Robert A. Heinlein was spot on when he wrote -- about fifty years ago -- how democracy dies ... "The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a "warm body" democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction.... [O]nce a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader ... the barbarians enter Rome."

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