Health Care Reform Once and For All

Oh, so we're hours away from the big vote on the big health care reform bill that the big man B. Obama has been bigging up for the big first year of his presidency.

If it passes, that is pretty big.

I have to comment on it. I really do. My take: better than nothing, though like my big man Paul Krugman at the NY Times, I'd have preferred a Medicare for all universal health insurance program like most countries have. We could've divvied it up by state if necessary to make us all feel happy and federal. That was never really on the table, however. Cowardly Democrats. Or maybe they aren't cowardly, they're just not all that left-wing (philosophically speaking), at all. Perhaps that's an illusion that I have wished to project onto them. Yeah, definitely.

As this British dude says: Americans are not used to the idea that politics can't be bipartisan, if we expect our parties to have actual policy disagreements and differences in ideology. So, grow up and stop getting hysterical about the two parties disagreeing. They agree on far too much already. Also, wanting universal healthcare doesn't make you a socialist, anyway. (And I'm serious, read through the wikipedia article. Then compare that to the Democrats. Please.) David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party of the UK, isn't a socialist, even though he (claims to) strongly support a completely state-run system of healthcare. I won't go through the "if this were Europe, we'd all seem far-right" argument. That British dude did, so if you clicked the link you'll have just read it. Also, it's had its time, and comparisons with Europe just piss off Americans and make me seem like some naive starry-eyed Europhile. Please, plenty of them bitches hate them some Muslims, so I'm jaded about those Europeans, too. Rascally buggers.

I'm just saying: we agree roads, air traffic control, fire fighting, policing, education, in some places water/gas/electric, are things that government should make sure we all have as a part of our input to the common pot of goods that would be too expensive or complicated to purchase as individuals. Health care is the same deal, the end.

And please, someone, introduce me to one of these Americans who Obama keeps saying are so satisfied with their current plans. I've never met a one.