Short Bits...Health care conversations

Healthcare has been an issue since the Truman era and no one has had the guts to really take on the insurance and pharmaceutical industries which control health care. It is a for profit industry and while CEOs can bank $12 million per year, 45 million Americans are not covered. Instead of looking for anecdotal evidence on how bad the English,French or Canadian systems are, why not go talk to some of the 45 million? Each of these three systems is superior to ours. And the evidence suggests that the respective citizenry is happy with their health care. Hell, Twitter in the UK was shut down two weeks ago by NHS supporters protesting the lies perpetuated by the American right in this debate. Per capita, their health care is superior to ours. That is not a debatable point--we rank 38th in the world--but go ahead and look for anecdotes. I prefer to live in the real world and look for serious solutions to a very complex problems. Slogans like "socialist" or Obama-care mean shit to me.