I don’t know where you went to school.

I do know that my kids learned reading, writing, algebra, geometry, trigonometry the basics in earth science, biology, chemistry American History and World History. That’s quite a bit in 12 years. Now they have the choice in community colleges to advance their studies in any of those areas and a multitude of others if they so choose.

May I suggest if you want to learn more about history and science that you check out your local Community College, I’m sure they would be glad to help you.

You make a good point on The Cuba issue I’ll respond to that at another time. (It’s past my bedtime sorry)

Thank you for giving me such a detailed description of your family life. I’m glad your kids were able to benefit so positively from the government school system. Unfortunately, they are an exception to the rule. As a product of the public school system myself, I received top grades in all my classes, yet later I realized what little I knew about history, science, the world, the list goes on, until I decided to study on my own.

And I’m not about to see “Sicko.” This is from a man who glorifies the Cuban healthcare system, and only shows the nice part, which is the part that caters to rich capitalist tourists. Care that the actual citizens receive is more along these lines: http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htm

This quote describes how the drug companies are profiting off of the suffering of people with cancer.

It is about the drug thalidomide used for a form of bone marrow cancer.

“thalidomide, a decades-old medicine now used as a cancer treatment, which is so cheap to manufacture that a company in Brazil sells it for pennies a pill. Celgene initially spent very little on research and priced each pill in 1998 at $6. As the drug’s popularity against cancer grew, the company raised the price 30-fold to about $180 per pill, or $66,000 per year. The price increases reflected the medicine’s value, company executives said.”

The fact is NICE and the other countries looking at adopting the same policies are forcing the drug companies to lower their prices so people can live.

“Britain’s National Health Service has been among the first to balk at paying such prices, which has led many companies to offer the British discounts unavailable almost anywhere else”.

The author of this article never read the NYT article if he did he was being clearly deceptive.

Dear sir if you would come out from behind the walls of your anti-American cult (fundamentalist Christianity) you would see an America many of us are proud to be a part of. The only time fundamentalists are proud of America is when our military is blowing up some Muslim country killing innocent men, women & children.

Sir you call yourself a Christian, you are anything but. I would encourage you to read your bible, entirely and in context I might add.

Finally the only reason you don’t see the problems with the “American system” is because you don’t look past the walls of your compound.Try watching Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko.” Oh yes I know he’s a liberal and everything he writes is a conspiracy Let’s remember one thing Michael Moore has never been prison. (What was it Mr. Colson was in prison for?)

Oh by the way your suggestion for those who are without insurance, should just go to the ER,this is already being practiced here in Arizona. In fact it is becoming so popular that many employers are dropping their health insurance for the same program. People are even coming from Mexico to take part in the program. (Remember it is illegal to turn anyone away including illegal aliens) In no time at all medical treatment will be so high that my company will be unable to pay for my insurance and I can join the program too.

Why is it that I never hear of any John Q.-esque horror stories happening in the U.S., but in the more enlightened countries like Canada and Japan, there are often headlines of people dying or nearly dying because of being turned down due to overcrowded hospitals and a shortage of doctors? The U.S. system definitely needs help, but government’s not the answer.

No, I don’t support socialized medicine. I want everyone to be able to go to the hospital and receive quality treatment, but I don’t think socialized medicine is the best way to achieve that, given its inherent problems as I have experienced first-hand in Japan.

I also do not think the government should be in the business of protecting people from poor planning and poor decisions. I don’t want to live in a nanny state. If the purpose of socialized medicine is to force healthy people to pay for insurance, then I don’t think that’s the government’s place. If the purpose is to help those that truly cannot afford it and do not qualify for Medicaid, then they can simply expand Medicaid.

She lived with me and I covered all of her bills except her car.

When my daughter was working 1 day a week as a server in a restaurant so she could make a car payment while she was in nursing school she was diagnosed with abnormal cysts which needed to be removed. She was turned down by medicaid because she made to much money.