Reply #34: The only way the health insurance industry can get by with it

[Lydia Leftcoast]

is having their shills in the PR world and in politics lie through their teeth or play upon the ignorance of the American people.

Back when Clinton's plan was first under discussion, I was taking part in a discussion of it, and one participant, who tended to lean a bit conservative, said, "The Oregonian quoted a report about what a disaster the British system is from the London Sun..."

Another member of the conversation, although American, had lived in England and Scotland for nine years as an employee of a U.S. corporation. He burst out laughing. "The London Sun??? That's one of the worst of the tabloids! Nobody with a three-digit IQ believes a word that's in the Sun..."

I didn't fully appreciate his remark until I traveled to England myself and whiled away the time between trains by looking at the newspapers people left behind in the station. There are some real rags on the British journalistic scene, along with some highly intelligent papers along the full spectrum.

But most Americans don't know that.