America the "exceptional" should provide free healthcare....

In 1st world countries we understand this shit!

Yea, that's why we don't have single payer though 1st world countries do, eh?

Right Todd....regarding other first world countries we are an exception but certainly not exceptional in this area.....pathetic might be a better word.

Perhaps it would be more helpful in understanding your position if instead of telling us all how stupid we are, you could instead share with us how you define the criteria which underlie the statements you make.

Well, yer real smart, huh? Ever wonder why the US is the #1 economy in the world and not Venezuela?

Is that really the most important criteria? Why is the US nowhere near the top of the list of countries with the highest standard of living, most satisfied (happiest) citizens, or overall quality of healthcare. Perhaps your priorities are a little whacked.

Curt

Don't you find that question weird? Like it was intended to draw a certain answer?

I did not think that comment to Donini answered the question I posed. Would you mind stating it again here. What is your criteria for determining what is and what is not appropriately in the public domain?

Everything public, is public!

It's just that you insist on using Venezuela as your poster-child example of "socialism" instead of Denmark, Sweden or a number of other socialized democratic countries where the comparison would look quite different. That's all.

Curt

I brought this up earlier, but watch Northern Europe in the future. They are changing. Socialism has rotted them and they know it and feel it.

Just sayin'....

Blue,

I pose the concept that healthcare is appropriately something which should l fall in the public domain - the same category as police protection, education, public roads, etc. I infer that you disagree. It would seem (from your rather colorful language) that you do not feel universal health care is appropriately in this realm. So again I ask you - what is your criteria for making this determination?