The Best Health Care in the World?

According to Glen Beck:

"...America has the best health care system in the world. Is it perfect? No. But it's still the best. Yet we're about to throw it all away in favor of... government-run health care..."

According to David Frum:

"...Rarely are the American people reminded that we have the highest cancer survival rates in the world. That success is the product of an entrepreneurial spirit, something that Obamacare and its drift toward government control will inevitably weaken. There is little compassion in giving grandma access to a procedure while making that procedure half as likely to save her life; conservatives should say so."

And Flocke thinks:

Conservatives should also note that Grandma has a greater life expectancy in 38-47 countries - most of which have universal health care coverage.

America's life expectancy is ranked 49 th in the world according to the CIA World fact book and ranked 38 according to Wikipedia.

Why does America's life expectancy rank so low - below even communist Cuba?

"Which grandmas" are going to benefit from these excellent cancer survival rates? The grandmas under 65 among the 30-40 million uninsured Americans? Do these grandmas represent America? Are there Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians among them in equal proportion to the population of the country?

How does the "best health care in the world" translate into one of the lowest life expectancies in the industrialized world?

How common are these views among the GOP?

Waterloo but for who ?

Republican leaders disdain Harvard and San Fransciso !

" ...Republican leaders dismissed any suggestion that the [health care] bill would hurt the party over the long term.

Someone at Harvard or in San Francisco might think that, but not the rest of the country,” said Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee. ..."

What other universities and cities do they disdain?

The Right Thing to Do

A lot of people are protesting in Washington for and against health care reform. You can always tell the difference when you look at the crowds. All-white crowds carrying American flags with ugly slogans ("abort obama" in huge letters and then a small bracketed 'care") are against reform. Flocke has yet to see an image of a multi-ethnic crowd (which might better represent what America is) protesting the health care bill. Is it non American to provide health insurance for the poor, uninsured, non - whites of this country ? Many Catholic nuns in this country (and flocke) don't think so.

Health Care Reform in America

Flocke is waiting for Sunday's vote. She is hoping for health care reform in America. She LIKES "hopey changey things". Though she would never say it quite like that...

( palin on hopey changey and strategies for america)

Flying American

Why is flying on an american regional jet like riding a third world bus - except the attendants don't wear flipflops? Flocke wonders.