US scores dead last in healthcare once again.

[Guest EXPAT]

Are you surprised?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/23/us-usa-healthcare-last-idUSTRE65M0SU20100623

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According to this article, many Republican governors are refusing to set up the on-line insurance exchanges that will allow folks to start shopping for competitively priced health insurance, and to see if they qualify for financial aid. The exchanges are part of the Affordable Healthcare Act and are scheduled to be up and running by next October.

Fortunately, the Obama administration is not sitting idly by and is hard at work creating a federal exchange for those who won't have access to a state exchange. It will be ready right on schedule.

Of course, the Republicans are crying foul and complaining that such a federal exchange can't offer any subsidies in their states, preferring that their less wealthy folks just go without insurance entirely.

Wrong again, say the feds. The federal exchange, and the subsidies, will be ready and available to all, right on schedule.

Unless, of course, ex-Governor Romney manages to get himself elected President and makes good on his promise to repeal the national healthcare program which is largely based on the one he implemented in Massachusetts.

Could the Republicans get any nuttier?

[Guest EXPAT]

I can't for the life of me understand why anyone who makes less than $250,000 a year would ever consider voting for Romney.

[Guest Allessio77]

I can't even imagine why anybody with incomes over $250k would vote for Romney..unless greed so rules their life that they have no concern whatsoever for their neighbors. Their portfolios would not survive another war (with Iran) or a sustained collapse in aggregate demand!