Healthcare, not bailouts, could break America.

[irislake]

"Obama's reform plans confront vested interests on the Left and Right. Economic collapse will be the price of failure."

"Europeans are usually shocked that 47 million citizens of the world's richest country have no health insurance....

Whether America's traditional insistence that citizens should take responsibility for their own healthcare is proud self-reliance or shameful inhumanity is a matter of political perspective.

US healthcare costs have long been out of line with costs in other countries---yet medical outcomes---are generally no better than the OECD average and substantially worse than in France, Switzerland and Japan."

Much more:

<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anatole_kaletsky/article6523512.ece>

[Christa]

1. Your link is broken nt

[Deja Q]

2. Yeah. Where it says "/tol/" real "/lol/".

Some stoned twit from the UK taking pot shots at what might (or might not) bring us down.