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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
This author has no idea how to contextualize remarks as report casual conversations. What that request was about was reporting to the White House what people were saying about Universal Health care, not monitoring people's thoughts or opinions on the matter. This simply wish to be able to combat against the negative spin being put on their healthcare reform. Nothing really totalitarian about it.
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Ya, I followed that link she gave and was confused about why she thought this would have 'outraged Democrats coast to coast' if it were Bush saying that. They obviously did not mean that the whitehouse wanted people to report it so the FBI could put them under investigation...
She seems like an interesting person, and like most bisexuals I have met, she seems to be going one way while thinking another.
She made some interesting points, but I think she is wrong about healthcare. Her assertion that profit in healthcare leads to good things is not accurate. Most of the problems the US has in their healthcare system is because of the profit factor. On top of that, the US has some of the same problems we are facing. We have about the same doctor to patient ratio, which is 0.6-.8 doctors per 1000 patients below the average amongst OECD nations. The problems we both face in that area is in education and training GPs and specialists. The Brain Drain issue has been very overstated in Canada over the past 10 years. We have even had some years where more doctors come back from the US than leave. I think the number of foreign-born doctors we have working in Canada is around 22%.
The US system just plain sucks. They need a major overhaul, the only knock on Obama is that he has watered down his plan recently, but that was because he was forced to. His hands are tied as far as bringing about the change he promised to bring.
I wonder though, if she is right about Obama screwing up the stimulus bill... but I think it has been mentioned here and amongst experts that the recession could have deepened further and gotten worse for longer if the government had not stepped in. As for Pelosi, I do not follow American politics that closely, but she seems like a typical politician that lets their self-righteous attitude get in the way of progress.