Reply #15: And also, thank you for the Python clip

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It was delicious. The hospital administrator was perfect, and the doctors were superb, and I think the mother and baby survived.

So now they're going to say we can't afford to lose the "health care" jobs? This is an outstanding case of misplaced sympathy. We had no sympathy for the outsourced jobs in dozens of other industries, but our sympathy for insurance processors must govern national health care policy? Gimme a break, as it were.

And after we've seized ownership of the health care industry, let's retrain any medical secretaries who want the training as nurses and aides. Last time I was in the hospital, I never saw a nurse, who all appeared to have morphed into lower level administrators, but had fine care taken of me by the aides, who seemed to actually like people, and to enjoy helping them out. I'm not quite sure what to do about doctors, but there are many fine ones out there, and perhaps they could retrain the others.

If in fact we're all dying anyway, slowly or quickly, let us organize our health care for the maximum comfort and ease of us, the customers, the consumers. Tell us how to maintain the health we were born with, fix our broken legs if they occur, and the rest of the time, get out of our way as we try to extract as much meaning and beauty from our short lives as we can. (Yes, I know there are diseases and conditions that require long treatments, some of them expensive, but if we just get the insurers out of the picture, we can probably afford to do whatever we need to do.

And can we have some dental and eye care and some in-home care for the elderly who need a little help caring for themselves?

Excuse me while I just jot down a note to Sen. Obama, with a copy to Mr. Emmanuel.