In Montana today, Obama says he's not looking to model any other nation's system, he wants a "uniquely American" system.
The fringe, though, aren't concerned with facts because they can all see Russia from their house. They are one stubborn lot of people and they're loud and obnoxious and they're not going to slink away or back down. Many of them are just seniors who've been scared out of their wits by ugly emails. But we should all be excited about the prospects of health care reform instead of distracted by the right wing crazy talk. A very thoughtful post from Brown Man:
The fringe, though, aren't concerned with facts because they can all see Russia from their house. They are one stubborn lot of people and they're loud and obnoxious and they're not going to slink away or back down. Many of them are just seniors who've been scared out of their wits by ugly emails. But we should all be excited about the prospects of health care reform instead of distracted by the right wing crazy talk. A very thoughtful post from Brown Man:
...the time is now to get your ass back in gear.Even the woman who appears in conservative ads complaining about Britain's national health care says she was misled:
Because the people you think you defeated, the people you thought would go home with their tails between their legs because their candidates based their message on fear instead of hope - they have not left the building.
They did not go gently into that good night. Read it.
Even British health campaigner Kate Spall — who criticizes NHS failings in U.S. television ads produced by Conservatives for Patients' Rights, a lobby group that opposes Obama's plans — declared that the group had misled her and was distorting her true views.
Spall's mother died of kidney cancer while waiting for treatment, but she said she is still a supporter of the NHS.
"There are failings in the system but I'm not anti-NHS at all," she said, praising Britain's commitment to universal coverage.
In an interview widely interpreted here as an attack on the U.K., Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa told a local radio station last week that "countries that have government-run health care" would not have given Sen. Edward Kennedy, who suffers from a brain tumor, the same standard of care as in the U.S. because he is too old.
The superheated debate broadened this week to include renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, a British icon who suffers from motor neurone disease. A U.S. newspaper wrote that under the British system Hawking would be allowed to die — an assertion that Hawking said was absurd.
"I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS," Hawking said, joining the ranks of those praising Britain's system. NPR
