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To: lazarre who wrote (227207)	4/16/2007 9:57:47 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

1. You're coming at the tail end of what (I thought) was a finished 'debate' such as it was. 2. We are at 16% of GDP for healthcare and are headed towards 20% in a few years. 3. Medicare Part D was a give away by Republicans to BigPharma which in turn gave 'Representative' Tauzin his $2M/year lobbying job. It is the single most expensive corrupt piece of 'legislation' ever. It is set to bankrupt Medicare sooner rather than later. It is nothing short of a disaster for this country and far outstrips even the fiasco that is Iraq in 'fiasco-ness.' 4. IMO healthcare is such an enormous issue both physically and financially that the gloves must come off before it is too late. Starbucks pays more for healthcare than it does for coffee. GM pays more than it does for steel. Healthcare prevents people from switching jobs, it bankrupts retirees when their companies go belly up. 5. If I remember correctly, in a given year the number of uninsured rises to almost 80 million. 40 million people may be uninsured at one time but many more go in and out of insurance depending on their work situation. IMO the US healthcare situation is a disgrace. We are the richest country in the world, we can start wars for no reason but we cannot provide cradle-to-grave healthcare for every citizen. We cannot provide it, NOT because we cannot afford it, we refuse to provide it so that a few corporations can gouge money from the backs of the American family. After 25 years of rightwing idiocy, we have come to the point where the USA is beginning to resemble a third world country with the ultra wealthy and the desperately poor. It is pathetic and it only takes political will to change it tomorrow. Even that nimrod Bush could cement his legacy if he chose to offer singlepayer Medicare to every single American. All he would have to do is change the age limitation and ban private insurance. If people wanted to pay out of pocket for something more then they could. Bush, if he bothered to, could challenge Congress to pass such a bill TOMORROW. Now that would be a miracle but it would be quite something.