BRAVO, BRAVISSIMO

Last night the House of representatives approved a revised Obama’s proposal for a new heath system. Finally, 96% of the Americans will have the possibility of having health care and the private lobbies will have real competition.

Sadly enough however, bigotry still prevailed and millions of American women will be deprived the right to decide about their own body or to have costly and/or illegal abortions. This is not freedom: freedom is choice. Nobody will force women who do not want it, to abort. But women who want or need, will not have such choice.

The fight is not over and Obama will face strong opposition in the Senate. Let us hope that he will prevail again. Health is a too serious matter to be left to profit making capitalists.

Bravo Obama, bravissimo.

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Idiots IX : If I were American, I would be dead by now

Certainly, I could have had more chances to die than in any other country because of an overdose.

Or because of a war in an unknown country.

Or because one of the 250 million firearms in the country.

But the majority of the Americans survive such hazards.

Indeed I might not be born, since the USA have one of the highest rate of newborn deaths in the world (and certainly the highest among the so-called rich countries.

But I would certainly have died during the past three years since the doctors discovered my cancer: my private insurance would certainly have stopped my coverage and I would not have had the money for the costly required treatments.
Provided I had an insurance and I were not among the 45 million Americans without any medical coverage !

And these idiots oppose Obama’s plan. No wonder the Republicans are behind the boycott: a national health scheme would cost much less than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their friends in the military industry would not be able to make money and finance the Republican political campaigns.

I was thinking that there was no more stupid country than Italy that elects amd keeps in power Berlusconi. Now I think that I found an even more stupid: the USA.

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