[Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri]

I apologize for the length of the post, but it was full of a lot of great information.

The Grass Is Not Always Greener: A Look at National Health Care Systems Around the World - excellent paper full of facts about national healthcare systems around the world.

U.S. Medicine Resembles a “Vampire Economy”

John Stossel and the Case for Free Market Health Care (Part 1 of 5) [VIDEO] - John Stossel presents a very strong case for the free market in healthcare and demolishes Michael Moore.

[EternalVigilance]

Socialism: Where your health care is free, but you are not.

[Carry_Okie]

I apologize for the length of the post, but it was full of a lot of great information.

It also contains just plain crap. I caught this one in "Myth #1

The most important information in an emergency is what just happened to you, and that will not be in your EMR.

There are a lot of people with good reason to wear those little "Medical Alert" tags. If a person is in anaphalactic shock, one wouldn't know "what happened" and it would be helpful to know about the relevant allergies. The better point to have made here is that a person can carry their medical records on a chip IF THEY SO CHOOSE. That system would be cheaper and more reliable, thus making the entire centralized system a total waste of money. Hell, the insurer could offer a discount for those who do so choose.

[Gay State Conservative]

So,so much I could say about OsamaObamaCare as a former hospital administrator (major Boston hospital),a patient (heart attack and a total hip replacement) and one who's quite familiar with both Britain's and Canada's health care system (Barney Frank,among others,is *on record* as saying that OsamaObamaCare is a prelude to CanadaCare).

In short,OsamaObamaCare will,in very short order,prove itself to be exactly what it is...the concoction of a community organizer/law "professor" who wants 95 year olds to receive a pain pill rather than a cardiac pacemaker (look it up),who'll never,himself,be subject to *any* of its provisions and who wouldn't know the difference between a rib spreader and a plate of baby back ribs.