Time for a reality check....!

[Flamethrower_]

Media attention.. gets a presidential address..then check the facts....

http://firedoglake.com/2009/12/29/terrorism-still-less-deadly-in-us-than-lack-of-health-insurance-salmonella/

Oh ..glory be..! "The only thing to fear is fear itself"

[dhaslam]

A big contrast with Canada.   There it was all down to one person to reform the system.   Can one person manage it in the US? 

Quote from Wikipedia
During the 1950s the momentum for expanding Canada's welfare state shifted from Ottawa to the provinces. In  1947    Tommy Douglas's  CCF government in Saskatchewan pioneered North America's first scheme of universal hospital insurance, providing free hospital care in return for an annual premium of $5 per person. Saskatchewan's success fuelled demands in the 1950s for a national program, a campaign backed by Ontario's Conservative premier  Leslie  Frost , anxious to secure Ottawa's help in dealing with soaring hospital costs. Frost's leadership pushed the St Laurent government into passing the Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act of  1957  , legislation that provided 50 per cent federal funding for provinces that established universal, publicly administered hospital insurance plans. By  1961   virtually all Canadians were covered under the scheme.

Read more: welfare state - Social Security for Canada http://www.jrank.org/history/pages/8283/welfare-state.html#ixzz0bCXPGCRK