health care insurance is as mandatory as car insurance and done in the very same way, then the middle-man, the insurance industry, which has destroyed the health care system in the first place

Sorry I disagree. The insurance companies like it or not have been faced with the same rising health care costs that the providers have. As one of those cases of irony, the federal government, the largest non-profit provider of healthcare in the country in fact has been far more cutthroat in denials and refusing to pay out than have private insurers. Of course the federal government under Bush no longer has the money.

Second to blame after Bush's sea of red ink is the self-entitlement mentality of people like Obama and his supporters, urban community loud-mouths and such who insist people who have the worst eating habits on earth and are far more overweight than the rest of Americans and have all the associated problems from it (hypertension, diabetes II, cardiovascular diseases, etc) that account for the overwhelming share of healthcare outlays should be entitled to a full free five-start coverage policy without adopting any much needed lifestyle changes. Listening to them bray ignorantly about what they're entitled to no-bars down is enough to make you a rightwinger.

Mrs. Clinton's plan to fully cover people while at the same time expecting them to take on the responsibility of much needed lifestyle changes is far far superior than unrealistically promising unfeasible free five-star plans to people who refuse to have a piece of fruit and a chicken breast instead of fried chicken and pasta or to get off their butt and take a walk.

I just saw Tim Russert play video of her saying that "many of you wish you could vote for both of us. You may get your wish." And she went on to say he would make her ticket a dream ticket.

well, if so I agree with you 100% that it's horrible for the aforementioned reasons.

1) Obama as President if something happened to her is positively frightening.

2) It rewards the worst and most rabid campaign I have ever witnessed while penalizing people who came back into the Democratic fold after 20 or 30 years of absence as civil and respectable adults as opposed to vulgar children.

Do you disagree that insurance companies are making record profits?

Yes.

Do you think government refusal to pay inflated prices is equivalent to insurance companies refusal to cover health care?

You don't know what you're talking about. I do. Private insurers reimbursement rates to providers are far higher than the governments and it has nothing at all to do with "overinflated" prices since private insurers have pre-negotiated contracts with the providers and healthcare outfits as to what they will cover. Furthermore the federal government , the largest payer by far, aka Medicare, pays lump some amounts for various diagnosis and associated complications and it is not at all generous.

Worse, each year Bush has been in office funding for medicare has fallen by at least 190 millon dollars.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/353558_insuranceed.html

Excuse me, but you do recognize that is an OPINION column you are citing. There are some insurance providers that are doing well and others that are struggling to stay in existence.

sorry 3 months later I'm decidedly uninterested in "coming together" with the slimey Obamateur, much less his positively unhinged supporters.

You've written the only sensible and intelligent words in this miserable, typically sensational, steaming pile passing for Salon's late prolific offering.

BAB - I agree blacks are worried about losing their long-crowned super-minority status. Their behavior and bigotry this season towards everyone else proves it.

Ironically it is their inability to form productive coalitions that destine them to voices in the wilderness rather than anything hispanics are doing.

There is one glaring problem with the way the press covers the Latino vote. Latino's are not a unified voting block, and they tend to vote along lines of nationality, not ethnicity.

Actually the opposite is true. Analysis of the past 15 or 20 years shows clearly that hispanics see themselves as working-class Americans and are concerned with matters affecting working families rather than being preoccupied with the racist generalizations that appeal to blacks and white liberals.

I was suggesting that refusing to pay inflated prices, which is what government does, is all together different from private insurance companies' unwillingness to actually cover care at all.

And I inferred, by doing so you demonstrate your ignorance. What the government will pay is already arranged by pre-determined diagnosis categories which has nothing at all to do with "overinflated" prices you pull out of your hat as if it meant something more than the emotional rhetoric it is. If most hospitals had to survive on what the government reimbursed without the subsidation of private insurers, particularly smaller hospitals with no economy of scale, they'd all be shutting their doors. Many in fact are.

So in short, either avoid entering domains where you are uncredentialed, or avoid being angry if those of us who are refuse to entertain you.

Putting Obamateur on as her VP to appease racist blacks is the worst thing she can do. Won't be a win win at all. It's only going to turn off her supporters who have watched them fart about "Change" the Obamateur has somehow never before delivered and to shout RACIST at those of us who point this out.