I think both sides are missing some important points. When some towns have no playgrounds except at McDonald's and the government's idea of "cleaning up" pollution is to move it to some poor hopeless mostly-black farming county in Alabama who may not have health insurance (see: Kingston TN ash spill) I think we're pretty much screwed. Yeah, it'll be more expensive than in France, Britain, Japan or pretty much anywhere else, unless each of us changes just about everything.
Which no one really wants to do, especially not Barrack "I can't believe its not change" Obama.
So instead, I'm going to make a modest proposal that involves something that we U.S. Americans do best: Making people in other countries do our shit for us. According to Newsweek
New Zealand is best for quick primary care. I know almost nothing about New Zealand, except for having watched their excellent historical documentary The Lord of the Rings . I assume that they are not still ruled by a large flaming cat's eyeball (possibly a flammable female sex-organ), and are now possibly ruled by that dude from "A History of Violence." In any case, they should run our health insurance program.
If they don't want to, we should do the next thing we do best: INVADE! This should be easy as they still use medieval technology. I expect we can mow down a team of elves with bows and arrows with our missiles pretty easily.
Or, we could just give young people the same "socialized" medicine we already give old people. But that's really too expensive and would raise taxes. Unlike war, which is cheap.
That dude from "A History of Violence." Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
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