Well, there is one thing we can all agree on, that the U.S. healthcare system needs a massive overhaul.
You aren't going to see the government institute a national healthcare system at this point in time for several reasons. 1) The political will for it isn't there. American people are still skeptical to some degree. If it does happen, it will happen in baby steps. That's probably the best approach anyways to work out the kinks. 2) Its not economically feasible at the moment. Obama has the right idea of looking for ways to make healthcare cheaper. Regardless of how you think the problem should be solved, you can't argue that the U.S. is spending way more money than is economically feasible based on the role healthcare should play in the economy as a percentage of GDP.
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
