Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Masks, Covid... Date: 17 Sep 2025 02:08:37 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <108kv17$73g4$5@dont-email.me> <20250827165330.81eb46a2f8f86d5efb83f0c7@127.0.0.1> <108nnmo$t297$1@dont-email.me> <108q123$1g1ph$1@dont-email.me> <108q9ne$1ieq4$1@dont-email.me> <10a3pjn$egqn$1@dont-email.me> <10a4el4$km8l$2@dont-email.me> <10a5s8v$1360o$5@dont-email.me> <10a60uc$148fh$1@dont-email.me> <10a6r88$1d082$1@dont-email.me> <10a8gq3$261sn$1@news1.tnib.de> <10ab8n3$2fauo$2@dont-email.me> <9droplx3a.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10aciqe$2qpnk$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mbQiSUSwFHqeH2Zf3z7wGwd+HTLU5ZYZ12S1U7jVItIJmUgD1T Cancel-Lock: sha1:SgY0arChEVSyyj3sk8I+Hw2/5ck= sha256:RfSLPfBX5p253tKbPJrfErZ9ZyI9QgMoY8dnF07gyTc= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74367 On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 13:54:38 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > That is because Europe is more sensible than the USA which is run on > myth rather than data. Myths put more money in the pockets of the very > well off. Otherwise we would have national health care for everyone in > all the terrritories of the nation to ensure public health. https://www.healthcare-now.org/blog/why-we-risked-arrest-for-single-payer- health-care/ Max Baucus pretty much drafted the Affordable Care Act with the help of his aide, or I should say the medical industry did. They had Max in their pockets so single-payer was a non-starter. When Obama was elected Maxxie got an ambassadorship to China although I never could figure out if that was a reward or banishment. Max made Joe Biden look like Demosthenes. The aide went on to a plum position in the, wait for it, healthcare industry. I guess the Democrats weren't all that interested in losing all those campaign contributions. The good part was we finally got rid of the son of a bitch after 35 years. Better yet when the Democratic governor appointed Walsh as his replacement the NYT said Walsh had plagiarized his thesis at the War College so he didn't last long and we finally got a Republican Senator again. Then we got rid of Testor and a lot of the local Democratic office holders. We did keep Zooey Zephyr around for comic relief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooey_Zephyr