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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Sun Jul 1, 2012, 11:51 AM Jul 2012

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: What’s the big deal?

“Dear Americans. Health insurance is very important for your health and life. Don’t 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, “I’m 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

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Europeans, Canadians baffled by U.S. furor on healthcare (Original Post) MindMover Jul 2012 OP
There are alot things baffling about this country because of our idiotic RW. DCBob Jul 2012 #1
May they never experience Tea Baggerism ChairmanAgnostic Jul 2012 #2
The UK has it's own Tea Bag group, but they ohgeewhiz Jul 2012 #3
actually they got it out of their system... when the Third Reich fell n/t oldhippydude Jul 2012 #4
A lot of it is that this isn't universal coverage 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #5

DCBob

(24,689 posts)
1. There are alot things baffling about this country because of our idiotic RW.
Sun Jul 1, 2012, 11:55 AM
Jul 2012

They can make a national crisis out of absolutely nothing simply for political gain.

 

ohgeewhiz

(193 posts)
3. The UK has it's own Tea Bag group, but they
Sun Jul 1, 2012, 12:01 PM
Jul 2012

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

 

4th law of robotics

(6,801 posts)
5. A lot of it is that this isn't universal coverage
Sun Jul 1, 2012, 01:07 PM
Jul 2012

which is probably how it's being reported over there.

It's set up to fail as it stands now.

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