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Hugely important legislative moment as US Universal healthcare takes a step closer.
Hugely unimportant moment as private conversation is accidently caught on microphone.
The healthcare thing is a BIG fucking deal.
Biden's enthusiasm is not a big fucking deal at all. Get over it for fuck's sake

US healthcare bill thingy

"US senators have passed the final Senate version of a historic healthcare reform bill."
Good news

US Healthcare

Mark Mardell's post about the US healthcare reforms just go to show how much of a genius Bevan was for getting the doctors onside and proving that the scares surrounding healthcare are nowhere near as bad as the right claim.
Again, Bevan = class

American healthcare

The Yanks have done something decent and voted for Obama's healthcare bill.
The arguements they are having sound exactly like the ones we had over here about the NHS in the 40s with Bevan. It's some honour to be compared to Bevan, and Obama's got a long way to go to justify that, but this is a start.
I just caught the end of a report on the news after MOTD and the stuff the opponents were coming up with is just stupid, but is the same as Bevan had to deal with.
So go on the Yanks, do something right and look after your sick

The role of the market in healthcare provision

this is an argument many on the left don't really like to have.

For just about everyone in politics, it's far easier to just dismiss arguments out of hand rather than make the difficult decisions about compromise. It's equally true of the right, who slavishly follow the market argument dismissing the state out of hand.

David J Olson, Director of policy communications, Global Health Council is the man who wrote the letter.
He praises the working of the market, but the key thing is how much the drugs are subsidised. if they can be subsidised, then great because that means people can actually get it