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Far too much sympathy in your attack post oink. If you want to slate seppos and who doesn't quit beating around the bush and get on with it. The fake sympathy only confuses the gentle reader as a despicable heartless bitch oink why include it at all?

I knew I should have stopped reading at "Michael Moore"

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The quick answer is, the Bush Administration and the vested oligarchy that represents democracy American style.

Careful with Mr. Moore's take on everything. You don't believe everything you read or see do you?
it is amazing that people from thruout the world seek medical treatment in the finest facilities in the world here in the U.S. even though they have "free healthcare" in their own countries. Been alot of places and the quality of healthcare in the U.S. is second to none by a long shot.
Now that doesn't address the fact that doctors here charge good sums for their expertise they should considering the length of the educational process and what it costs . No one is turned away from healthcare in the U.S. for the inability to pay. Lots of socialist programs to pay for those who can't, even here.
Cascadebob's comments are clearly from someone who hasn't a clue to the politics of the U.S. Taking a shot at Bush has absolutely nothing to do with healthcare in the U.S. The president doesn't dictate such policy. It is done in the legislative branch.

US political culture = strong distrust of "big government" and pervasive belief that the private sector runs things better and more efficiently. There's your answer.

There are reasons to distrust big gov't and believe that the private sector runs things better and more efficiently. If the US gov't operated like a business we wouldn't have some of the issues we have today. The gov't wasn't created to be a nanny for every man woman and child. The US has become a nanny state and those of us that pay the bulk of the taxes are a little tired of paying the nanny.

Thank you for demonstrating my point, #7. You can go back to watching Fox News or listening to Rush Limbaugh, now.

I love these so called libertarian, anti-government types claiming private enterprise is more effective than "big government." What a joke! The U.S. economy couldn't function without the billions of taxpayer dollars that subsidize "private industry", often to the detriment of its citizens.

Start with gas prices where big oil gets billions in tax breaks while turning record profits. Or the agricultural sector where the family farmer has been driven off the land by corporate agri-business, with their fuel, seed, low cost loans, and chemcicals all subsidized by the federal government. The military-industrial complex has grown so that one can tell where Lockheed ends and the government begins.