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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (60827)	8/15/2009 9:51:24 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

And what else is utterly stupid? We have a single payor for our security (Pentagon). They are not farmed out to individual contractors. Then for our food and drugs we have the FDA to provide oversight for our food and drug practices. Even our farmers are subsidized (Sen. Grassley, farmers from your state are a beneficiary) But our healthcare is a free for all subject to abuse. No oversight, no subsidy for this items, which is a keep component of our national health and prosperity.

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (60827)	8/15/2009 10:26:12 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

Barack Obama's stepmother: I owe my life to the NHS US President Barack Obama's stepmother has said she owes her life to the NHS. By Laura Donnelly Published: 8:51PM BST 15 Aug 2009 Barack Obama's stepmother: I owe my life to the NHS Kezia Obama told the News of the World:''It's very simple: I owe my life to the NHS'' Photo: PA Doctors and nurses saved Kezia Obama during a visit to Britain seven years ago, when she suffered chronic kidney failure. The 66-year-old, who now lives in Bracknell, Berkshire, said she would never have been able to afford healthcare if she had been in America at the time. Ms Obama told the News of the World: "It's very simple: I owe my life to the NHS. "If it wasn't for the NHS I wouldn't have been alive to see our family's greatest moment - when Barack became President and was sworn into the White House." The intervention came after Republicans branded the NHS "evil" and "Orwellian" amid a major row over Mr Obama's plans for US healthcare reform. Ms Obama said she fell seriously ill during a summer visit to Britain seven years ago. "I suffered severe kidney failure and pancreatic problems so there was a very real chance I might not have made it," she said. "I was very down at the time but luckily I was here in Britain, in what was then a foreign country to me, where the doctors, nurses and surgeons cared for me like I was their own child." The widow, who attended President Obama's inauguration in January, turned to the NHS again five years ago when she needed two hip replacement operations. "If I'd been asked to pay for my new hips, well, I wouldn't have been able to afford them," she said. "I would have without a doubt ended up confined to a wheelchair." telegraph.co.uk