Tim S

Recently watched a Bill Moyer interview with Wendell Potter 15 year employee and former Communications Director for CIGNA Healthcare.

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07312009/watch.h...

Do you advocate to maintain the current health care system?

By the medical, insurance and pharmaceutical companies and demand universal health care?

We pay TWICE as much for health care as countries doing better than us in these areas like Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK.

We are 27th in Life Expectancy and 21st in Infant Mortality.

What is wrong with this picture?

Source:

CIA Factbook

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...

and make it illegal to buy the same drugs at cheaper prices from Canada. What kind of free market it this? Also, do you believe the pharmaceutical companies propaganda that if competition is introduced it will hamper development of drugs?

Yet we spend TWICE as much as countries doing better than us in these areas like Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. What is wrong here?

Yet we spend TWICE as much money as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK but we rank below them in health care performance.

The life expectancy and infant mortality figures come from CIA

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world...

Tyrants and oppressors commonly use religion to incite humans to hate and destroy other humans. This has occurred throughout history and continues to this day. Religions were created by men speaking for "god" and many people believe that holy books are the word of god. Most of those books decry violence and the murder of other human beings yet they are somehow used to justify hate and destruction. Is religion the most dangerous threat we face as human beings?

Religion is commonly used by tyrants and oppressors to incite humans to hate and destroy other human beings. This has occurred throughout history and continues to this day. Religions were created by men speaking for "god" and many people believe that holy books are the word of god. Most of those books decry violence and the murder of other human beings yet they are somehow used to justify hate and destruction. Is religion the most dangerous threat the world faces?

Tyrants and oppressors commonly use religion to incite humans to hate and destroy other humans. This has occurred throughout history and continues to this day. Religions were created by men speaking for "god" and many people believe that holy books are the word of god. Most of those books decry violence and the murder of other human beings yet they are somehow used to justify hate and destruction. Is religion the most dangerous threat we face as human beings?

behind Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

According to the study just released by American Public Health Association:

We are 27th in life expectancy

21st in child health ranking (infant mortality and low birth weight)

BUT we spend TWICE as much money per person than those other countries.

Why?

behind Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

According to the study just released by American Public Health Association:

We are 27th in life expectancy

21st in child health ranking (infant mortality and low birth weight)

BUT we spend TWICE as much money per person than those other countries.

Why?

behind Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

According to the study just released by American Public Health Association:

We are 27th in life expectancy

21st in child health ranking (infant mortality and low birth weight)

BUT we spend TWICE as much money per person than those other countries.

Why?

behind Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

According to the study just released by American Public Health Association:

We are 27th in life expectancy

21st in child health ranking (infant mortality and low birth weight)

BUT we spend TWICE as much money per person than those other countries.

Why?

According to a study just released by American Public Health Association we rank lowest behind behind, Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and the United Kingdom?

We are 27th in life expectancy

21st in child health ranking (infant mortality and low birth weight)

BUT we spend TWICE as much money per person than those other countries.

Why?

We already have many "socialized" services in the US such as Police, Fire, Libraries, Parks, Schools, some utilities, etc.

Recently, the Bush administration that refused to consider spending money on citizens health care "socialized" many banks, insurance and mortgage companies.

Why is it so hard for Americans to see the value in a government sponsored universal health care.The rest of the civilized world has forms of universal government sponsored health care in place and they seem to work well for them. To my knowledge none have reverted.

This is of course contrary to the propaganda put out by the medical, drug and insurance industries who make vast profits from our broken system. When will we Americans stop voting against our own best interests and demand universal health care?

most recently banks, insurance and mortgage companies? Why is so hard to accept health care? Isn't a citizen's health a basic element for the security of our nation?

within an hour. Pretty good pick huh?

We could negotiate for defense against crime and bid for our personal safety. At the very least we should have co-pays for assistance.

Wouldn't this be a more free market approach to security?

Do you think it's fair that kids that don't pay taxes get to use the books that you and I as taxpayers pay for?

Should we privatize fire fighters? In Rome they would pull up to a house fire and negotiate the price to put it out. Free enterprise.

Is this a good idea?