No, I do think the U.S. develops a lot of great medical technologies. But what do insurance companies have anything to do with that? They shortchange the people who actually provide services and make discoveries all the time.
I am all for going to a single-payer system for efficiency's sake. You don't have to convince me bureaucracy is a problem.
Obama is trying to move us towards a single-payer system, although he is taking it one step at a time. America isn't quite at the point where it will accept a complete governmental takeover of the healthcare system.
Get rid of insurance companies completely if you ask me. They are a middle man who provide no real service.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
