Reply #18: K&R -- thanks for the compilation

[Overseas]

I appreciate your having pulled together all the reasons in favor of national health care.

The tired old myths are trotted out again and again by our legislators who get lots of large donations from the medical industrial complex and have government supplied PPO-type health insurance for themselves.

THey pretend that "people like to choose their own doctor" -- but two of my favorites weren't on my HMO.

They pretend that "It'll be awful like the UK where you have to wait months for treatment," as though we haven't called for appointments to HMO doctors and been told nothing is available for months.

Those are the two big ones.

And I'm hoping that since the election was a large majority for what the Right was calling "socialist" that we can go right ahead with "socialized medicine."

GLAD TO HAVE THOSE GLARING STATS TOO FEW OF OUR LEGISLATORS MENTION -- that our health is worse than other countries with the dreaded "socialized medicine" in many measurable ways. All that money and all that frightening financial insecurity over medical bills and we are sicker than the countries smart enough to provide national health care.