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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: TimF who wrote (108428)9/20/2005 12:18:19 AM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I think societies, like individuals, accomplish the things that are a high priority for them. The U.S. under Bush seems to be a warmongering nation more than a society taking good care of its citizens, although it is possible that with the attention the poor are getting re Hurricane Katrina, that could change (for the good, I think).

Another problem with national health insurance is that there is a huge and powerful lobby against it. I think the U.S. government may be more influenced by lobbyists than the governments of the other first world nations. Medicine/pharmaceuticals have been very profitable in this country. I am not sure how you solve that problem.

I am not an expert on the way other countries set up national health insurance. Is it always totally from tax revenues, or do some of them ask individuals and/or employers to kick in?
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