some things never change.

[coffeelover]

Nice Blog on our health care reform specialist Doug! We need him more than ever right now

[Doug]

That was an absolutely beautiful blog post, Doug. Thank you. I'm trying to write one myself today!

Thank you. I know yours will be as good as or better than mine. You have a nice touch!

[Doug]

Nice Blog on our health care reform specialist Doug! We need him more than ever right now

Thank you. Teddy Kennedy was one for the ages.

[coffeelover]

I just watched his funeral on CNN and cried the whole way through it. What an emotional baby I can be!

[Sangye]

Today is one day I'm glad not to have tv-- I'd be crying the whole time, too.

[Luce]

Blame it on the pred Lisa!

[Doug]

Sangye-

I don't recall the date on your blog post on health care in America, but it seems it predated Kennedy's death.

Your discussion was cogent, well-reasoned, certainly convincing, and- this is directed at the rest of you reading this post!- worth reading.

If you never write that tribute to Teddy Kennedy, this blog post stands on its own as a tribute to him as it is what he saw decades ago as needed in America. I've copied your link to your blog below because I think it is that important it be read. (Pop quiz tomorrow!)

http://sweetnotalways.blogspot.com/

[Doug]

p.s. I just read the Dear Ted posting. Made me cry, damn it. A beautiful posting, Sangye. Clearly, for me, it hit exactly the right spot.

[Sangye]

Thanks, Doug.

[Jack]

I noticed that in today's news they are reporting more protests against health care reform in the USA. It is all very hard for us to understand here in the UK. Anything to do with changes to our own state run system generates the opposite reaction with any cuts being strongly opposed and politicians promising more spending in order to buy votes.
I presume that the American protests are mainly from those who would have to pay more taxes? Don't they understand that in the long term they too would gain? The statistics show that health care spending in the US per head of population is two and a half times that spent in the UK. However, the US child mortality rate is higher!