re: #11 buzzsawmonkey

It is instructive to listen closely to the news coverage—particularly NPR, which is completely in the bag for everything Obama—and realize that sometimes they are talking about health care, and other times talking about health insurance.

These two things are not the same, but the news coverage often uses these terms interchangeably—with the result that one is never quite sure what is actually being talked about.

I’m not sure it’s ever been about health care. We do not have the same horror stories here that we hear coming from the UK and Canada, about people travelling to other countries for care they can’t get at home, etc.

It’s always been about paying for health care, which is the “insurance” part of it.