Reply #53: "health care costs money. A LOT of money" . . .

[OneBlueSky]

yes, it does . . . but it costs a hell of a lot less than we're spending on the ILLEGAL war in Iraq, and on a "defense" budget larger than that of all other nations combined . . . it's all a matter of priorities, and neither candidate is willing to acknowledge that universal, single payer healthcare is indeed possible if two things happen: 1) we re-allocate a small portion of the money we're currently pissing away on military endeavors to something useful, and 2) we cut out private insurers and HMOs that contribute nothing to effective and efficient healthcare yet take a huge portion of our healthcare dollar as profit . . .