re: #300 trendsurfer

…we pay twice as much for our system per capita than others and yet nearly 50 million aren’t covered?

Uh - I’m not seeing the implied linkage here. Yes, Americans spend a great deal on health care. But a vast portion of that amount goes to tummy tucks, boob jobs, botox injections, tinted contact lenses, varicose vein stripping, liposuction, hair transplants, full-body MRIs for no medical purpose, dick pills, dick extensions, dick lubricants and a huge host of other unnecessary elective medical procedures. Trying to tie this to somehow to the number of uninsured is a non sequitur; there’s no connection between the two statements unless you want to claim that all of the foregoing procedures, pharmaceuticals and aids are medically necessary and ought to be provided to all who ask.

I take serious issue with the figure cited, as well - it seems to be rising on a daily basis, in inverse correlation with support for the health care bill, ballooning to nearly double it’s official tally just a couple of weeks ago - but the attempt to connect it to overall per capita medical spending is ludicrous.