Canadian Hands
At one point, during the promotional period for Sicko, Michael Moore said something to the effect of, “Do you think you could find anyone in Canada who would trade their healthcare system for ours?” (If you can remember the exact quote please post a link or, if you’re a fellow poster, put it as an update.) At any rate, recently there was a debate held over universal healthcare, and one of the panelists arguing in favor of it was Paul Krugman, liberal economist and New York Times columnist. Here’s a portion of an exchange from the debate.
PAUL KRUGMAN
And private insurance? That’s the thing, I— Actually, can I just —I wanted to ask a question. And—JOHN DONVAN [MODERATOR]
Please—please do—PAUL KRUGMAN
—and I wanted to ask, actually two questions, to the audience. First, how many Canadians, would Canadians in the room please raise your hands. [ONE PERSON APPLAUDS, LAUGHTER]JOHN DONVAN
We have about seven hands going up—PAUL KRUGMAN
Okay, not as many as I thought. Okay, of those of you who are not on the panel who are Canadians,, how many of you think you have a terrible health care system. [PAUSE] One, two—JOHN DONVAN
We see—almost all of the same hands going up. [LAUGHTER]PAUL KRUGMAN
Bad move on my part. [APPLAUSE]
Remember, folks, Canada is a utopia where everyone gets all the super awesome magical unicorn healthcare they need, and only evil rich corporations pay for it.
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What else can 700 Billion buy? http://consumerist.com/5054163/what-else-can-700-billion-buy For $100 Billion you can Universal Health Care for all people in the U.S. without it. For $35 Billion you can get universal preschool. Half-days for 3-year-olds and full days for 4-year-olds. For $10 Billion you can carry out all the security recommendations issued by the 9/11 commission.
And that is only $145 Billion
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
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Clearly the seven were all CEOs.