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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, working-class hero?

On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.

By Mike Madden

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Monday, March 31, 2008 05:46 PM

Electro Robot

I have a lot of family in the UK, none of them have any serious complaints about the NHS and I have discussed the subject at length with a number of them both when I have visited there and they have visited here. Yes, there is considerable carping, but when I ask them point blank if they would like to trade places with me here in the US the answer is essentially "are you mad?".

Here in the US I'm basically uninsurable thanks to "preexisting conditions" and if I get seriously ill I fully expect to die untreated.

Both systems perform "triage", but the US system is based on how wealthy you are.

Of course, in the US, if you are wealthy it is prima facie evidence that you are good and worthy of life and if you are poor it is prima facie evidence that you are bad and not worthy of life.

All in all the moral clarity of the American system is greatly to be preferred, eh?

—Aycharaych Read Aycharaych's other letters

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