Staying Home to watch the Inaguration?

now..now...





Both as true today as when they were first uttered.

If I am ill, I go to the doctor or hospital of my choice, they send the bill to the government and that's it. It's really not that complicated.

It's not perfect and not everything (i.e. ambulance, dental) is covered, but better SOME free health care than none at all for those who can't afford (or are refused) insurance, no?
No one here has to trade their kids' education for an appendectomy.

Then again, public health care depends greatly on the government that runs it. I'm sure things aren't idyllic in all countries that have it.

This is truth no doubt. I can't speak to the efficiency of the Canadian Government. But ours is another story. ANYTHING they get their hands on becomes a wasteful, inefficient , corrupt mess.

/me wanders through the thread whistling

If you have a wireless or a television contraption (that you turn on) then it will be unavoidable to see at least some of it, anywhere/everywhere across the world.

At least this new bloke can speak.

But what about dumping piles of money into a stupid war in Iraq, a country that had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, but Bush used that as an excuse to cost us billions of dollars and thousands of lives.

That is a crime that Bush should have to pay for.

QFT!

I'm semi-retired, thus don't go out of the house for work, but not watching the inauguration. I will either go out for some exercise (we have nice weather here), read a relaxing book, or anything else BUT watch it.

I wish all the people threatening to move to Canada last inauguration would have taken this approach. Better still, if they were in Canada... *grins*

Can I come to your house, Lindal?

Depends on one's political leanings...I prefer Fox.

I was in England for a couple of years. One time I woke up in pain and was taken to the hospital. Within a few hours, after an MRI, I had surgery. Cost to me: ZERO. And no one asked me to prove that I had insurance. And I wasn't a citizen.

Later I asked my US doctor about what would happen under the same circumstances here. He said that it depended upon insurance. Some companies would approve it immediately; others would take a while and deny coverage. And if I had no insurance it would be very unclear what would happen, but that there would be a wait.

Of course, if I had enough money to pay, there would be no question; I could pay and then ask the insurance company for reimbursement.

Some people in Canada have operations immediately after diagnosis. Accountants in insurance companies do not have to approve medical decisions.

Here the insurance companies make the decisions. Not everyone can get insurance. If a member of your family has had certain medical conditions and you are self employed, you likely will not be able to get insurance at any cost.

Why is it that among the industrialized countries, the US has the largest per person health cost, but the worst results in things like infant mortality, survivability of heart attacks?

hopes for snow tomorrow..
at my house not by Obama..snow means town shut down and i cannot make it to the office.

I will be home on sick leave atm (a flu and pneumonia..... for which my doctor came to visit me at home. So yes, although our system is far from perfect... I think the basics are good of it... and now back to a good social government that really has to say something to restore the damage that the current government has caused).

Anyway... I will not really watch it. I will see it on the news and such. That is enough for me.

The Beltway will really suck tomorrow. Glad I'm not gonna be on it or anywhere near it.

No reason to party about a change of oppressor.

no but a day off is a day off

I personally know at least two people in that situation, and another person who has a terminal illness who, if she ever missed a single payment, would not be able to get insurance by any means.

There's something especially sad about knowing that one of your loved ones will die at least a couple of decades earlier simply because they cannot obtain access to adequate medical care.


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Do you realize how many of our politicians, Congress and Presidents, we would have to throw in jail for these types of things - not just Bush. Darn near the whole freaking lot of them have cost us many billions for one stupid reason or another over the years.

I like your perspective. Thanks. Only light can overcome darkness.

"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

Let's all have love for all beings.

exactly lol
only it's trillions really..
this banking crisses has cost us plenty and that goes through quite a few Dem and Rep administrations all contributing in one way or another..

What ticks me off is I need to work. I can't afford the day off to watch over 150 MILLION of our tax paying dollars spent on that one day.................... One would think a President that takes on such a deficit and then claims a week prior to this event that the defict will be TRILLIONS more in time to come under his rule that he would at least keep this event conservative. You know, the whole "lead by example" thing....

well he's in now..the campaign is over..truth is coming time is here

I'll be watching. And doing a little dance of glee.

Throwing them all in jail isn't a bad idea. All of them. Then someone can come along and say he is for change, and isn't part of the problem. Until then, all we do is recycle one crook for another.

I'll be watching with tears in my eyes as I remember all the things I've seen in my life that have led to what I consider to be one of the proudest moments in the history of my country. Both because we have elected as president a person of color and because he won by standing against the incessant propaganda of the last 30 years that greed is good, misfortune deserves to be punished, fear and loathing is to be cherished, and making obscene profits is to be admired no matter how it's done.
Obama's message has consistently been one of hope, courage and working to meet the needs of everyone. I don't know if he will really be able to do much to save the world but I do believe he wants to and he is going about it in a good way.

BBCNews is not about ratings, sponsor interests, or political propaganda. And they have actual journalists reporting from all over the world.

I will have tears too. You are wise beyond words. A thousand thank yous Kaimi.