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I haven't. Would love to go. Have heard very positive things from colleagues about the changes there. I have made three trips to South America in last twenty years and am yearning to go back . Very likely this next year. It's a spectacular continent with spectacular and wonderful people. I...

Have you been to Columbia recently?? Have you sampled the healthcare there? Just curious.

The most harm was caused by medicaid not being expanded in most of the States with Republican Governors. You'll recall that the Republicans went to the Supreme court to get a ruling that allowed them to do this. Obamacare was structured so that those who made too little to qualify for...

Probably net cost is the measure most consumers of healthcare should use when comparing health care in different countries. The cost of an MRI is France is ~$280 and `$1200 in the US (Old data.) It is more like $2500 in the US in many places, but there is little uniformity. What is it in...

Sorry. I did not make myself sufficiently clear. That is not my definition. I'm using the first definition given; not the third. The first definition is the standard definition on both sides of the Atlantic and is used both in everyday and political discourse. Most people, there are...

We can only judge that decision in light of all the constraints surrounding it. As a general principle however healthcare ought not to be tied to employers and employment. But that's just one of the fucked up things about U.S. healthcare. U.S. politics will preclude a direct solution. The...

You might benefit from looking up the definitions of "majority" and "minority". I use, unless specially qualified, the word "majority" in the general sense as defined in the Oxford English dictionary. (My fourth grade teacher, Miss Caudron, was British.) From the Oxford English Dictionary...

It's a horrible idea to tie health care to employers; one of the worst decisions in the history of the country.

That's not single payer. That's the opposite!

The train wreck was a joint project, but the Republicans had the leadership role. How quickly we forget that the majority of Democrats wanted the public option, but a few Democrats combined with nearly 100% of Republicans killed it. Then once the Democrats forced through Obamacare, sans public...

This original cost estimate amounts to $320/mo per person over ten years. That's a little more than double, by comparison with cost in other advanced nations.

I see this as another reflection of how dreadfully unsuited Donald Trump is for the Presidency of a major nation.

You do understand, don't you, that Trump is one of five minority Presidents in the Nation's history. Going to the voters won't help him. His approval rating is a reflection of "the voters." Unfortunately for Trump there is no electoral college to determine public opinion. Look at the Senate...

Your quote of my remarks that you deemed "Speculation" was a part of my, apparently failed, at least in your case, attempt at satire and flippant whimsy. When you quote me without the accompanying satire, you do me a disservice. I was so pleased with myself when I penned those remarks on the...

I don't "love" Obama, I was rather critical of him. Trump's Congress, however, has opened my eyes to how very much more difficult it is to lead than to oppose. And now, Trump has helped me recognize how difficult Obama's job was. I have new found appreciation for Obama, despite his, after the...

Of course. And governments change with time and revolutions. But People don't change , at no perceptible rate anyway. We all want the same things and we are all susceptible, collectively, not necessarily individually, to demagogues, and without realizing it in real time. I really don't think...

How can any sane, reasonably balanced person escape the obvious?: Our President has a mental disorder making him not only unqualified, but dangerous as our President. If that wasn't sufficiently evident during the Primary and campaign, it certainly is now. This inescapable reality, to my mind...

Oh, C'mon.

Trump is by now probably contemplating pardoning his entire family , and himself too, in advance, as a prophylactic measure. If you ask me, this entire Russian cum Trump cum Manafort cum Flynn cum Sessions, cum Jared, cum Sater, cum Miss Universe, cum Trump Tower-soho-Florida Mansion cum WWE...

You're not too stupid at all. The most useful thing one can learn from an Al Brooks price action book is how important it is for a publisher to hire competent editors, rather than relying on an author to edit their own work.. Al Brook's books are probably the the best recommendation for Strunk...