“Ms. Lowey, however, replied with a 2 ½ page response in which she detailed her understanding of the need for health care reform and presented a case for the plan as it now stands in the House version. I was impressed and pleased with the thoroughness of her response and grateful to have an opportunity to engage in what I hope to be a meaningful dialogue absent much of the hype that so often passes for discussions.”

We never got to see Lowey’s letter, only Cortes’ response. I’m a little curious how she defended the plan.

Bob: “It will guaranty the type of waiting lists and lower cure rates that are the hallmarks of the Canadian and British national health plans.”

Do you mean to say that adopting a health care system closer to that of Canada or the UK will result in a negative change for the U.S.? That may be true, the U.S. is a different country with different needs.

But if you’re saying that the health care system in the U.S., as it is now, is better than the system in Canada or the UK, I’d like to see the evidence you have to support it. As a Canadian, I’d be concerned – maybe I’d even begin lobbying for Canada to adopt a system that’s more like yours.

It also may be true that the majority of Americans want good health care for themselves, at the expense of the minority who can’t afford it. Believing that is your prerogative. Personally, I believe that the rich do not deserve better health care than the middle class, and the middle class don’t deserve better health care than the poor. But that may be a very un-American belief.

This is the first HIGHLY intellectual posting from the brainpower jugernaught Moho! Most people would expect an intelligent person to rebut the position held by the author, or perhaps offer alternative. But Moho takes uberintelligence to a whole new level and simply attacks the people on the forum. Brilliant!

Then further down the comments reminds us how truely omnipotent his powers for thought truely are! Thanks for the reminder. We the readers here on PJM are truely in awe of your skills at debate!

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

The top five are Christian countries:

1. Colombia
2. S. Africa
3. Jamaica
4. Venezuela
5. Russian

I’ll add that the first country on that list is the number one recipient of US funding in the Western Hemisphere. The first Muslim country to enter the list doesn’t even come in until number 50, Tunisia, with a murder rate that is one quarter that of the US. Seriously, you people have 0 sense of priorities. No matter how incompetent the Democrats are, they could never equal that of the Republicans.

Peter writes: So of course, being unconstitutional, the Supreme Court agreed it was perfectly legal.

I am beginning to understand the libtards. whenever they use words like ‘unconstitutional,’ what they actually mean is “Something I don’t agree with, no matter if it is legal or not.”

As I challenged some other libtard on another thread here today, please explain, in graphic detail, exactly what freedoms YOU, PERSONALLY, have lost due to the implimentation of the Patriot Act?

The only one I can think of is the loss of being able to fly planes into tall buildings, but you would probably consider that an expression of free speech, wouldn’t you?

That ranking was from 2000. This is nearly a decade later. Did you even read what your url said at the top?

“The World Health Organization’s ranking of the world’s health systems was last produced in 2000, and the WHO no longer produces such a ranking table, because of the complexity of the task. ”

By the way, how are we ranked on education? 15,19 and 14th according to this site: http://www.siteselection.com/ssinsider/snapshot/sf011210.htm. Guess the educational “public option” ain’t looking so good now is it?