Finally,

People who rationally review the various healthcare options.

I live in Canada which has a not quite single-payer system, the govt pays for healthcare except for certain exclusions such as drugs,dental, prescription glasses or contacts. This part of HC is really paid for by federal & provincial taxes + in certain provinces a tax surcharge for the big money earners. Larger companies cover the extras thru negotiated contracts with providers such as Blue Cross. In most cases, the patient chooses the provider & the extras are usually covered by the employer thru Blue Cross or similar. The bills go directly to the insurers and are usually subject to a small co-payment around 10%.

That at least explains most of the system.

In USA I would be dead or at least bankrupt due to pre-existing conditions. Among other great gifts from nature, along with a mini-stroke,I was privileged to be diagnosed as having Leukemia that fortunately is controllable by a $3500/mth drug. I'm on my 2nd pacemaker & about 12 other drugs. When I worked most drugs - 10% were paid for thru employer coverage. Now I pay as do others over 60, about $3 for each prescription filled.

Seems like USA individual independence includes the right to die if you're poor & sick, with profit being the principal objective. I watch a lot of US news and the negative ads & bafflegarbe by mostly GOP is incredible. Surely the population is not so intellectually challenged as to believe it?

The Canadian system costs everyone & is by no means perfect or as technically advanced as U.SA but it does work.

poor Bristol! I don't know if the situation is sad or pathetic. She may have the body of an 18 year old but it reads as if she is emotionally a young lady of 12. To be so fearful of her parent(s) that she is afraid to tell them what is going on is a disgusting situation.

Bristol having a child is nobody's business but her own. The fact that she and her situation were treated as stage props by her own mother suggest Mrs Sara isn't very fit to parent let alone possibly run a country

There really must be some sort of god or maybe it is inbreeding ? How else are so many incompetent or is it incontinent people holding positions of power and authority? In good times there was an uneasy peace between management, the UAW and politicians .Now in tough times,the gloves are off and Southern Republicans appear to be afraid of losing something. The objectives of the GOP & the big 3 seem to be pretty close in most areas. Both want someone else to be tagged with the fault, save face and get things back to normal i.e. the UAW is the problem.

Unions are in no way perfect but neither are employers or politicians. When the dust settles and the studies are done, the value of the UAW's & its spin-offs contribution to the American GDP is likely to be far larger than currently estimated. It is too late to let the auto industry tank when there are things that can be done or at least tried. America, UAW and manufacturers can make good, salable cars if it wants to. If it dropped a few of its pet projects, such as the war on drugs or the war on aliens. Ceasing the continuous stream lists of people to be feared would also help. The biggest contribution may be giving up on being the the world's hall monitor

once again the sky is falling in Arkansas. First Bill Clinton & his alleged blow jobs and now Gays prancing wild in Eureka, If only Sarah Bullmoose were VP. Then the camps could be opened -boosting the economy and the fallen re-educated. Sounds like the collapse of civilization will be next.

What I want to know is when will the blue-ray version be available for a "Donation"?

Billy is the kind of person to make people especially proud to be Americans - NOT. He may not be an asshole but it would be difficult to pick him out of a tray of them. As long as people keep watching Fox the O'Reillys will be employed to spew their clap-trap.

If this god Palin speaks of sets the outcome of what she does, why do we need her in the middle? Funny though GWB said he was more or less in direct & daily contact withe supreme being and look at what a screw-up George has made of thingsdespite what many claim as divine inspiration?

maybe it means America will finally try to understand and correct what caused 9/11 and will stop being so fearful of the real world.

Perhaps through the haze of self-congratulation and praise, Barrack Obama can lead America out of its conceited and costly stance of always being the biggest and best-ess. America has a right to be proud of its generosity in goods, money and blood to the rest of the world. What is not so praiseworthy is its knowledge about the rest of the world & its forms of government.

I was very pleased to watch Mr.Obama and Mr. Biden walk away with the prize. Mr. McCain may have been a memorable president but his running mate was in questionable taste.

Let us hope that when the history books are finally written about Mr. Obama that his successes are many & his failures inconsequential.

how delightfully wrong the pundits were especially the chief one