Speaking as someone who WANTS universal health care, this is making me crazy. Ditto with bells and whistles and knobs on. I spent months before the election arguing that a national basic health cover was both a right and a duty and that all the conservative arguments against it were so much hot air and dangerous macho nonsense; and now this guy comes along and identifies health reform with the most horrendous ideological issue of them, the one which, according to my analysis, is ultimately responsible for all the hostility in modern politics. This is wrecking; it amounts to adding another one to the list of failed national health cover proposals - Truman, Nixon, Clinton - that come with depresssing regularity once a generation and are squashed, while American citizens continue to set up pathetic websites to gather funds for friends and relations who have been let down by private insurance.
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Ditto with bells and whistles and knobs on. I spent months before the election arguing that a national basic health cover was both a right and a duty and that all the conservative arguments against it were so much hot air and dangerous macho nonsense; and now this guy comes along and identifies health reform with the most horrendous ideological issue of them, the one which, according to my analysis, is ultimately responsible for all the hostility in modern politics. This is wrecking; it amounts to adding another one to the list of failed national health cover proposals - Truman, Nixon, Clinton - that come with depresssing regularity once a generation and are squashed, while American citizens continue to set up pathetic websites to gather funds for friends and relations who have been let down by private insurance.