Europeans, Canadians baffled by U.S. furor on healthcare
As the news spread that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the law and its requirement that most people buy health insurance, some people across Europe took to Twitter to ask: Whats the big deal?
Dear Americans. Health insurance is very important for your health and life. Dont forget. We have it in Germany, one Twitter user from Germany wrote, adding a smiley face to the end.
Rafael Dohms, a computer engineer living in the Netherlands, wrote, Im forced to pay health insurance here in the [Netherlands]
not as bad as I would have imagined.
And Parisian filmmaker Vincent Galiano joked, At least USA becomes a modern nation! Soon even the education could be good!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/06/europeans-on-obamacare.html
DCBob
(24,689 posts)They can make a national crisis out of absolutely nothing simply for political gain.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)or the installation of NeoCons into office.
ohgeewhiz
(193 posts)are much more obvious about their form of racism... THE ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAUGE, or EDL for short.
They are against welfare for the unemployed, (but many of them are on it), they hate the influx of "brown" and "dark" people, particularly Muslims and blacks. They are for returning England to a more racially pure land, kicking out the immigrants who are supposedly taking away their jobs.
But, of course, the EDL has NO PROBLEM whatsoever with the NHS, national health service, free medical care.
Other than that, It's all the same, really
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)which is probably how it's being reported over there.
It's set up to fail as it stands now.