To quote liz_marcs:

There are a lot of lies running around out there about Health Reform in the U.S., including painting other countries' health schemes as somehow "worse" than what we have in the U.S. (which is demonstrably not true), as well as the kind of people health reform would benefit vs. harm.

There's a lot that can be said about the proposals floating around out there, some good, some bad. But we'll never reach a solution if we're screaming at each other about it.

What we need is some truth. Facts, figures, and reality on the ground.

Who are the Americans who stand to gain from health reform? And is health care and health insurance in other western democracies really nothing more than bureaucratic factories o' death?

Since this is the Age of the Internet, maybe we should just ask the people who know these things.

So, all you peeps out there in Internet-land: I'm asking you to lay it your fellow netizens. What's it really like out there in the big, wide world?

She has two posts, the first for American's only: Uninsured and Underinsured and the second for Countries with Government Health-care/health insurance schemes

Please support this - it's a place for you to post your own stories, to read those of others, to make up your own mind.

To quote liz_marcs:

There are a lot of lies running around out there about Health Reform in the U.S., including painting other countries' health schemes as somehow "worse" than what we have in the U.S. (which is demonstrably not true), as well as the kind of people health reform would benefit vs. harm.

There's a lot that can be said about the proposals floating around out there, some good, some bad. But we'll never reach a solution if we're screaming at each other about it.

What we need is some truth. Facts, figures, and reality on the ground.

Who are the Americans who stand to gain from health reform? And is health care and health insurance in other western democracies really nothing more than bureaucratic factories o' death?

Since this is the Age of the Internet, maybe we should just ask the people who know these things.

So, all you peeps out there in Internet-land: I'm asking you to lay it your fellow netizens. What's it really like out there in the big, wide world?

She has two posts, the first for American's only: Uninsured and Underinsured and the second for Countries with Government Health-care/health insurance schemes

Please support this - it's a place for you to post your own stories, to read those of others, to make up your own mind.

And mostly for my memories:

FOAFtale News - the newsletter of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

(seriously, methinks the contributors are SPN fen...)

Some of the links to recent issues aren't working, but all content that is available is freely available (not open access yet, but it may be added to DOAJ soon.

sometimes my job is worthwhile!

And mostly for my memories:

FOAFtale News - the newsletter of the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research

(seriously, methinks the contributors are SPN fen...)

Some of the links to recent issues aren't working, but all content that is available is freely available (not open access yet, but it may be added to DOAJ soon.

sometimes my job is worthwhile!