Matt Taibbi article: " Sick and Wrong ", your feedback please

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29988909/sick_and_wrong

Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment — a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

The system doesn't work for anyone. It cheats patients and leaves them to die, denies insurance to 47 million Americans, forces hospitals to spend billions haggling over claims, and systematically bleeds and harasses doctors with the specter of catastrophic litigation. Even as a mechanism for delivering bonuses to insurance-company fat cats, it's a miserable failure: Greedy insurance bosses who spent a generation denying preventive care to patients now see their profits sapped by millions of customers who enter the system only when they're sick with incurably expensive illnesses.

The cost of all of this to society, in illness and death and lost productivity and a soaring federal deficit and plain old anxiety and anger, is incalculable — and that's the good news. The bad news is our failed health care system won't get fixed, because it exists entirely within the confines of yet another failed system: the political entity known as the United States of America.

Just as we have a medical system that is not really designed to care for the sick, we have a government that is not equipped to fix actual crises. What our government is good at is something else entirely: effecting the appearance of action, while leaving the actual reform behind in a diabolical labyrinth of ingenious legislative maneuvers.

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The U.S. can't call itself civizilized when 100,000 people die here per year due to lack of healthcare. This is why we need single-payer healthcare.

Highly recommended

from getting to the masses..they work other web sites as well..and they are easy to spot.

They use the same tactics the bushbots of 2001 on use..they never post anything that isn't purely propaganda and easily disputed..and when you dispute them they call you names ..instead of debating facts.

I now turn the name game back at them..I won't waste my precious time with them. I just fill their threads with truth ..over and over again..so their bullshit won't stand.

"Everyone will get the Public Option"

"Your monthly health insurance bill will go DOWN"

etc..etc...

linked this in one of his daily emails (he's with Physicians for a National Health Program).

Good stuff.