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This group (or at least this thread) on this forum is not for social networking. We are discussion a serious topic, concerning one of the largest segments of our economy, and its policies have serious implications. Rather than attacking me and callin...

Let's see what it costs to live in Florida. The base sales tax rate is 6%, plus counties add more on top of that, and there are taxes aimed at tourists on top of that. You pay a 6% sales tax on automobiles. It doesn't matter how little you earn. You ...

Yes, we really should. I became more interested in the nuts and bolts of the system when a participated in a patient advocacy program. Physicians organizations get involved in the political process. There could be more participation in the process fr...

No, I was implying that a nurse doesn't have much access to health care economics, etc. on the job, unless they chose to pursue it, and I explicitly said that undergraduate nursing education focuses little on the subject, though at the graduate level...

Based on objective measures, such as the WHO's, that is true. It's been true for a number of years. (Digression: Look at the rapid progress they made in hand washing a few years ago. Within a year, they had a very high level of conformance. Compare t...

This is to realmaninuniform, who was obsessing over the question: It is irrelevant. You need to not worry about the person, and refining your ad hominem attacks, and concern yourself more with the argument at hand. Focus on the facts, the claims, and...

A state failed at implementing universal health coverage, so therefore, universal health coverage is impossible? Tell that to every other industrialized nation. And tell it to Massachusetts, which has had for the past six years something very close t...

You home school a 10- and 12-year-old? Who does the instructing? If you do, there it seems impractical for you to pursue a degree full-time. And you won't be cut much slack if you have to deal with child issues (illness, etc.). There are many things ...

Back to the original topic... To those who who argue for the existence of natural rights, either derived from nature or a spiritual source: You must start with axioms. Those axioms cannot be logically derived. Slavery and its like has been seen throu...

According to your religion, unregulated enterprise will always do the best things for the citizenry — what's best for GM is best for the country. Their fiduciary responsibility, as private corporations, is to their shareholders. That is it. If they c...

You really love those anecdotes. Yours is a straw man. Why don't you compare the the healtcare systems of industrialized countries to ours? Look at their per capita costs, outcomes, and accesiblilty. I hope you realize that the U.S.S.R. went out of e...

No, my scholarly friend, you are prejudiced. You said this: Do you deny saying that? What percentage of the uninsured do you think are the working poor, who can't qualify for Medicaid? As soon as you have a McJob, you're on your own. You are a bigo...

Please go back to page 18 and look at the list. There are 48 countries ahead of the U.S., among them Cuba, Germany, France, Spain, and Canada. Can you explain how the size of the country itself causes our infant mortality rate to be higher (in some c...

If you're such a scholar, then you know that your personal experience, anecdotes, and prejudices don't cut it. That is all you've presented. You still haven't put up a single reference to back up any of your opinions. It sounds like you haven't read ...

What they usually don't want to recognize that that we can't afford our current system, universal care works well or extremely well (compared to ours) in other industrialized nations, and we already are paying — a lot — for the uninsured. The result ...

You might enjoy reviewing John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes's writings, but here, you're playing a rhetorical game. If you're arrested, do you have the right to a speedy trial? the Sixth Amendment begins: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall...

These countries have lower infant mortality rates than the U.S., from the next lowest to the lowest: Faroe Islands Northern Mariana Islands New Caledonia Hungary Taiwan Greece French Polynesia Canada Cuba (Yes, Cuba) New Zealand San Marino Wallis and...

What do you think happens to infants who have no access to health care? They just shake off illness? You're a recent immigrant, so you have no idea of the U.S.'s history of healthcare. Programs such as CHIP (Medicaid for children) are recent programs...

Our current healthcare system is failing, and without reform, is on the road to disaster. Take a look at the ever-increasing portion of our GDP it consumes. The number of uninsured has been on the rise. Small companies and individuals have been getti...

Sticking to the subject of healthcare, the VA system is doing a good job now of providing efficient health care, though some politicians who claim to strongly support the military want to cut veterans' benefits. Are you in the system, FMF Corpsman?

That is a good start. That is also a good idea, especially if you can coordinate it with your schedule (i.e., get outside as soon as you wake up in the afternoon). Have you considered light therapy? It's been effective for some who suffer from seas...

All U.S. residents have the right to a speedy trial. You're paying for it. How does that work?

First, European states are not interchangeable with one another any more than American states are. Are Sweden, Norway, and Denmark in the same economic boat as Greece? How about Mississippi and Massachusetts? In fact, how about Sweden and Mississippi...

And yet, Medicare is more efficient (i.e., it costs less per capita) than any private insurance. There are problems with large organizations, whether government or private. Do you think large private companies are less corrupt than governments? Their...

Congress passed the best that it was going to get. Such is the political process. No one got everything they wanted. There is no way that anyone would. So Congress passed what it had, and the president signed it. The Republicans were in opposition. W...