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"First of all it's health insurance that needs to be reformed, not healthcare. The insurance companies are the ones that want it called healthcare reform...that distracts attention away from their massive fraud."

Thank you for clarifying that point. This dog eat dog insurance marketplace has American health care by the throat. Wee peeps are the little drops of blood left behind for scavengers to scarf up from the ground. I do not see how health is served in this environment.

Why aren't the Dems in the House and Senate screaming out single payer? .....don't they need votes in 2018 or something?.... hello! Geeez I forgot, that would be going on offense. ....rarely a democratic strategy. That would be just rude.

It's gone way beyond rude. It's downright dangerous - besides, a lot of those folks are personally compromised - on all sides - at least, it seems that way to me.

Polls clearly indicate single payer is by far the will of the vast majority. Instead we now have governance by and for only the billionaires, which is plain old textbook fascism. Well guess what...we the people can't afford this welfare program for the rich any longer.

I hear that.

Education and healthcare both need to be a cradle to grave right, and not for profit. Energy needs to be nationalized...Don't worry, the Koch's won't end up on food stamps. In fact nationalization of energy will be the only shot we have to slow down climate change.

I have no objection to any of that, if well and fairly administered.

It's just many times removed from imminent questions of daily survival that so many people are facing - not unrelated, but not the first priority when food and shelter are not easily obtained.

None of this will happen by simply being well spoken and polite."

Ok, I think being well spoken and polite has great value, especially when communicating with people who do not hear, or respond positively to anything else. My experience tells me, it's truth that turns the wheel. Unless I am swallowed by hypocrisy, I will speak the truth in whatever way communicates most effectively ... this, from someone who tends to speak and behave like a wrecking ball.

I kind of like the reception I get when people listen, and try to hear what I am saying. I also like how I feel when I do the same to others. I'm ok with polite behavior, so long as I don't have to lie.

I know it's life or death in too many places. Whose face do I scream in to change that?

And yes, this is an extremely dangerous moment in human culture.
I hear the calls to resist and oppose ... in so many ways, this seems counterintuitive ... but it's over my head, so, I figure every one of us has our own basket to weave ... I do what I can, one breath at a time - and hope it makes a difference, somehow.

I trust you, and other people, to do the same in your own spheres of influence ... and hope we can work this complex puzzle between us.

First of all it's health insurance that needs to be reformed, not healthcare. The insurance companies are the ones that want it called healthcare reform...that distracts attention away from their massive fraud.

Why aren't the Dems in the House and Senate screaming out single payer? .....don't they need votes in 2018 or something?.... hello! Geeez I forgot, that would be going on offense. ....rarely a democratic strategy. That would be just rude.

Polls clearly indicate single payer is by far the will of the vast majority. Instead we now have governance by and for only the billionaires, which is plain old textbook fascism. Well guess what...we the people can't afford this welfare program for the rich any longer. Education and healthcare both need to be a cradle to grave right, and not for profit. Energy needs to be nationalized...Don't worry, the Koch's won't end up on food stamps. In fact nationalization of energy will be the only shot we have to slow down climate change.

None of this will happen by simply being well spoken and polite.

And btw, I'm sure zero funding will be going towards treatment. Lock them up and throw away the key will most certainly be the model sought after. Poverty, income inequality, despair-all key components which lend to drug problems, none of this will be addressed. It's no coincidence that drug use has soared since the recession. People feel hopeless. And if the government doesn't care if I live or die due to lack of health coverage then why do they care what substances I use? They want all the control but none of the responsibility. If someone commits a crime to get their drug money we already have laws for that. So they're willing to say, screw responsibility to people societally, you're on your own. Oh, but we do want to enforce what you put in your own body, even if you're hurting no one in order to do so

We had amendment 69 in Colorado for single payer. The insurance companies dumped millions into advertising against it.

Ccctttt is right. It should be done state by state like Canada. Every state has different needs. By the way Andrew in some provinces in Canada there can be very long waits for none life threatening surgeries like knee, shoulder, hip etc. Up to a year. My neighbor just went to a private clinic fo knee surgery than cost him $7,500 rather then wait 7 months. Most Canadians also have private insurance here for all the things that are not covered by our provincial health care. Like meds, eye, teeth, therapy ambulance, etc. That costs me about $200 A month per employee. Also keep in mind Canada has 1/10 of the population of the US, about 36 million and we have ten times the resources the US has and here the government owns all mineral rights that help subsidize the healthcare costs. from my time in the US I can clearly see two things that would reduce costs immediately my eye drop is $16.00 in Canada, before my plan that covers 90%, and at the same Safeway pharmacy same mfg $125.00 in Scottsdale AZ that is just wrong and you have to stop these f ing law suits for medical stuff it is unbelievable how my commercials for lawyers there is on tv. I have never known of any lawsuit of any kind for healthcare up here. They all do their best and they are human they make mistakes, not having to pour out insurance coasts would reduce costs instantly.

"You mean like lowering wages to 25 cents a day."

Really? Would you care to back that up with some actual facts or data? Of course not. You can't. Typical left wing bomb thrower. Please continue living in your parent's basement because you have no clue what it is like in the real world.

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THE NEWS DISCOURAGES {a rhyme}

The news, - it us so yuugely unsettles,

like our tummies are pained by stinging nettles.

We need some courage, some strength, some mettle

to bring back our nation into finer fettle, -

- not stewing in the cauldron, in the Trumpian kettle.

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America, at least the oligarchic land mass between Mexico and Canada, suffers 63 million fools who have been thoroughly brainwashed into believing that the world would be a better place by unleashing a vicious pack of war-dogs and greed-masters. They voted for nothing but pure, unabashed fascism -- a growing cancer that is ravaging our Constitution, mocking our Founders, and destroying our society.

Rather than laughing or showing false respect, the rest of the free world needs to take this deadly contagion very seriously and isolate the illegitimate government of this arrogant dictator in every way possible. Don't invite him or his thugs into your countries; protest against your politicians who try to normalize relationships; cut off all his self-dealing business ties; don't buy refined fossil fuels from his oil tycoons; don't renew contracts with his "defense" contractors; ridicule and shun his every authoritarian word and deed.

The violent, fascist ideology of these radical, white-supremacist, Christian terrorists needs to be quarantined before it spreads to other, still-functioning democracies.

In the Victorian era all drugs were legal, and available for sale at any drug store. There was no such thing as a prescription, you didn't need permission from anyone to buy any drug, including heroin. At some point, it was realized that almost 2% of the population were drug addicts! Thus began the horrors of the prohibition era. Now, after trillions have been spent and millions jailed, and an entire industry created around "recovery," the rate of addiction is....around 2%. There will always be people who want to alter their consciousness. Why do we need these thought police? Their meddling has cost far more lives than it has saved, and their 'help" has had no effect, except creating a nation of hypocondriacs and chronic meddlers.

I didn't realize that life-saving and life-giving health care and a family doctor was an imposition. Single payer health care is the only way to go, and it costs half what American health care costs or perhaps less. I haven't read the latest cost outrage. Don't bother replying with the usual BS about how Canada's system is terrible and wait times blah blah blah. I've heard them all and they are all lies spewed out by insurance tycoons, and right wing traitors. What could make you proud about thousands dying from treatable illness?Why would you prefer medical bills being the leading cause of bankruptcy? What kind of person thinks it's oK for parents to have to agonize over whether to bankrupt their familites or help a sick child? I don't know what kind of brainwashing they have in your schools or what they put in your water but evidently it worked. Look at your new "leader." I hope you know the whole world is laughing at you. Please don't blow up the world to prove how righteous, Christian, and tough you are. We promise to pretend to respect you.

You mean like lowering wages to 25 cents a day. Or is that too rich. Perhaps a bowl of gruel and a few corn cobs per day. Would that keep companies around? America is really in a race to the bottom. My only hope is that Canadians witness the drop in standard of living in the US and the fabulous wealth hoarded by the billionaires and realize that conservatism is only for suckers. The sad thing is that the lives that are being destroyed will increase the wealth of the people at the very top, but they are already so rich they won't even notice it. Before you call me a "commie" remember, Russia put your man in office and is the one really running your country now.

Republican-speak translated:

"Why should the guvmut steal my money to help sick people too lazy to work? The country would be better off if they all died and quit wasting resources. Then there'd be less DemocRATS and libtards bitching and whining and voting. Meerkkka first!"

...the inner thoughts of a typical right-wing zombie without all the spin and polish to make it sound justified, moral, or intelligent.