About your last paragraph: what we have here is the result of the accumulated anti-NHS polemics of the Daily Jail and of the hunt for horror stories by other media trash. Anyone who knew nothing but newspaper reports, and who were foolish enough to believe them, might well believe that our system is a mixture of third world indigence and concentration camp. We should remember that you can become ignorant by reading as well as remain ignorant by failing to read; all you have to do is read the wrong stuff. If Murdoch, Rothermere and the successive owners of the Express group have been so successful in reducing the collective IQ of Great Britain, what effect can they have had on people who do not even have the corrective experience of actually living in the country?
There have to be better reasons to argue against Obama's proposal than the various hysteria-mongers of Fox TV (never, never forget who owns it!) have given, but, like you, I find the noise and anger too distracting, and even when I tried to focus on any apparently clear argument, I find distortions and lies about other countries to be at the heart of it. What does seem to be the case, however - and it is enough to damn the effort in my eyes - is that the bill is being used as a Trojan horse to impose a "right" of abortion on Americans. This is a highly simplified description of what it embodies, but where abortion is concerned I have learned to be suspicious of everything, and there is something highly sinister about the way that amendments that would insure a right of objection or deny abortion on public money have been systematically shot down, even when proposed by Democrats.
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There have to be better reasons to argue against Obama's proposal than the various hysteria-mongers of Fox TV (never, never forget who owns it!) have given, but, like you, I find the noise and anger too distracting, and even when I tried to focus on any apparently clear argument, I find distortions and lies about other countries to be at the heart of it. What does seem to be the case, however - and it is enough to damn the effort in my eyes - is that the bill is being used as a Trojan horse to impose a "right" of abortion on Americans. This is a highly simplified description of what it embodies, but where abortion is concerned I have learned to be suspicious of everything, and there is something highly sinister about the way that amendments that would insure a right of objection or deny abortion on public money have been systematically shot down, even when proposed by Democrats.