tonny from belgiumJan 16th, 2008 - 05:43:13

Of course not a word on this.From the Washington Post:quote:
A separate study by researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine provided further evidence that the United States often falls short on health outcomes despite spending more per capita on health care than any other country. That research, also published today in Health Affairs, found that the United States ranked worst among 19 countries in the number of deaths that could have been prevented through better access to timely and effective health care.

Had the United States performed as well as the top three countries -- France, Japan and Australia -- it would have seen about 101,000 fewer deaths per year from conditions such as hypertension, appendicitis, tuberculosis, and colon and cervical cancers.

'While no country provides a perfect model of care, there are many lessons to be learned from the strategies at work abroad,' said a statement by Karen Davis, president of the Commonwealth Fund, the foundation that funded the study ... unquote
One would think that saving 100?000 lives per yearwould be a priority .But other than bashing Michael Moore ,the other inconcenient source with similar information,every republican candidate is squitming to save the interests of the insurance lobby over the lives of their fellow citizens.
Same with global warming.Until very recently it was either dismissed or considered a hoax by these fine gentlemen.THe sabotage of the Kyoyo treaty has cost everybody precious time and it looks as nothing is offered but empty words.As usual the messenger bringing the bas news is ritually killed for delivering his message;hence the slander and smear campaign orchestrated against A Gore.

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OmarJan 16th, 2008 - 11:27:35

Tonny, by 'hanging your hat' on Michael Moore and A. Gore your credibility went into the dumper.

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bill from michiganJan 16th, 2008 - 13:50:08

a sad day .
hope he doesn't make it to president.this A-hole will be worse than bush.

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NoharnessJan 16th, 2008 - 14:33:42

Re:''Washington is broken, and we're going to do something about it,' Romney declared in remarks to the cheers of enthusiastic supporters. 'Tonight is a victory of optimism over Washington-style pessimism.''

This was a barb aimed at John McCain who had the cojones to point out that some jobs in Michigan were gone and would never come back. He's right, some of those jobs will NEVER come back. The Big Three painted themselves into a corner, then local Democrats choked every thing else to death with high taxes trying to make up for the auto industry's decline.

Governor Romney's solution to this, what little of it that he has revealed, smacks of corporate welfare, which is one of the things already killing the United States. I am not surprised. I have yet to hear a single politician of either say one word about putting an end to corporate welfare.

Right now, the single largest corporate welfare program is our open border policy with Mexico. I do not blame a single Mexican, Guatemalan, Ecuadorian, Argentinian, Brazilian or Peruvian for wanting to be here in the United States. Were I one of them I would sneak across the border and fight to stay.

However, there are so many of them sneaking in now that they are actually depressing their own wages. That's right, wages are falling, even among illegal immigrants. All of them are mistreated by their employers. Time and half over forty? Don't let's be silly! Insurance? Hah! It is little wonder that our medical system, that Tonny is so keen to criticize, is under strain. They go to the emergency rooms when they are ill and the hospitals are obliged by law to treat them there. Emergency rooms dare not turn anyone away.

Lest you think that this is limited to ditch-digging and landscaping and other such jobs, take another look. Most of the welders, fitters, plumbers and about half the electricians working for my employer are immigrants carrying green cards. How many of them actually have legitimate paperwork is anyone's guess.

Oh, your college educated and think you are immune? You aren't. Their are more than a few of them taking up jobs as draftsman and programmers. Oh, and if you are a company needing programmers, you can obtain special privileges to bring programmers in from countries like India, Pakistan and China. US citizens can no longer count on having a job that pays a decent wage. Soon the minimum wage will be the maximum wage.

Of course, if you are a manager and want truly cheap labor that can do nothing about improving work conditions or benefits, you work a deal with the Chinese government and move your production facilities to China or, even better, subcontract all of your production to a Chinese company. Brilliant, what? In some fields of business there are actually tax advantages for doing this kind of thing.

Never mind the rest of the special tax loopholes that make our tax code completely incomprehensible, never mind the sweet heart deals at the Pentagon and other Federal Agencies, none of those amount to diddly squat. It's this package of deals for cheap labor that matters.

I have yet to hear a single politician currently running for President say a thing about actually changing any of these deals. That's because the misery in the middle class works for Democrat politicians and the GOOPERs could care less so long as the GOOPER Fat cats get their cheap labor.

I keep watching these political puppets and wonder if maybe there isn't a character called 'Shit on a Stick' about to run for President. There won't be of course. That would be too honest.

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RealistJan 16th, 2008 - 14:56:27

The republicans are bankrup for leadership candidates. You got the dog, Mutt Rumney; the fruitloop, Huckleberry; and the tired old man, McCain. If that is the best those fools can come up with, then they might as well go home, now.

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SeniorJan 16th, 2008 - 15:51:46

why Mitt reminds me of Nixon?????

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