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then get America on a single-payer medical plan that covers everyone cradle to grave and ASAP. If you think that declining house values are a drag on the psyche, try the growing fear that most sensible people now have that they cannot personally afford medical care for even modest illnesses and health maintenance----much less a bad illness. The costs are out of control, and the employers are backing away as fast as possible from being able or willing to cover them in from workplaces. So, you got $20,000 lying around to pay your own way for a modest problem? How about $600,000 for a "big" problem?

We are either going to fix this health care thing and fix it right, or you are going to have more and more people either "feeling" they're going in the ditch (and clamping their wallets shut)---or actually going there. Other countries know better than the nonsense we put up with in medical financing. We had better stop self-admiring ourselves as the "exceptional" nation (as though that is our divine right) and start learning from others how to tame the serious economic matters in sensible (and moral) ways.

Muser of NM 3:54PM January 26, 2010