Thanks, crazy. The way we've been doing things down here hasn't made sense. I think it's ridiculous for anyone to say America can't afford to provide good basic healthcare to all. Until we get that situation covered, we can't afford all this military spending that has gone on in the middle east.

America has resources that are sitting around unused. The main ingredient in getting anything done is labor. We have unused labor sitting idle in this country. People who have jobs and health insurance and are kind of happy with the way things have been fear that, if some poor person down the road is given some healthcare, that the cost of it is coming out of their pocket. This is a simplistic view of things and not how it really works. America has the resources. It's time to marshal them.

It's ridiculous to think that we can't do what Germany, and France, and Sweden can do. We can!

I'm blessed to live in a place where the local county provides a plan for all low income people. So I am covered to the hilt for just about everything, even though my income is extremely low. I get great healthcare through the local state university teaching hospital. A week ago, I was sent for a CT scan because of abdominal pain and diagnosed with something new and effectively treated for it. It would be false to think that, somehow, America would be richer, if that CT machine were not used on me. It is false to think that someone in my county is going without something they need because I got an expensive test performed on me. That's not how economies work.

As a nation, we do fritter away our wealth on all sorts of crap. If a little of that gets crowded out by Obamacare (which I doubt will happen) twill be no loss. Improved health care implies improved mental health care, which we here at PC should really value. A healthier nation is a more productive nation. Better mental health care could make life better on a number of fronts.