Some of you may have missed it, but Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was the guest on the Colbert Report the other night. The Senator spoke on issues near and dear to us Impatient Sufferers, particularly education and health care. Watch the video and think about what we could achieve if we elected more congressmen [...]
In this post, I have provided some additional material to supplement Impatient Sufferance’s ongoing discussion on the present and future of America’s struggling health care system. The data below was culled from the World Health Organization’s public database, the WHO Statistical Information System’s World Health Statistics 2007.
Before I continue into an analysis of the [...]
For years the American people have been the subject of a giant campaign of fear. There has been a concerted effort to frighten us all into thinking that a universal, single payer health care is a Marxist principle. With Marxist theory still in the shadow of Soviet Communism it’s very difficult to convince anyone that [...]
Joe touched on an issue in his post on our health care system that I’d like to expand on. There is a libertarian viewpoint, endorsed by many Republicans, that private enterprises tend to be more efficient than publicly operated ones. These folks are correct while also being very very wrong.
Businesses in a free market are [...]
“There’s nothing liberal about wanting to make sure that everybody has health care. We are spending more on health care in this country than any other advanced country. We got more uninsured. There’s nothing liberal about saying that doesn’t make sense, and we should do something smarter with our health-care system. Don’t let them run [...]