" I think populist politicking is shallow, lazy and self centred underneath. We employ polititians to do the hard yards and make the big decisions...
Yep. It sounds like I wasn't alone in my appall at where Abbott took our political discourse, TV, and that comforts me. Keating could be cutting,...
OK So when men do things they are just being blokes, lads, but women in YOUR opinion should toe some imaginary line that YOU draw which if they...
Malice doesn’t get us anywhere when we all want the same thing: for Australia and the world to be a better place tomorrow than it is today. I've...
Parties like One Nation talk it up right wing socially, but economically they talk it up left wing: first and foremost they promise jobs. It...
With respect Deckel, what do you know about Australian Medicare that you put it on the same level as American Medicaid? As I've already said,...
Good question. The public purse props it up big time already - that's why 17% of US GDP goes on health care compared to the OECD average of 9%....
Mmm. I heard a bit of coverage where a female GOP representative was explaining why they got rid of ACA and that they were considering all kinds...
Incidentally Americans, the reason people like me from single payer, universal health care system nations keep telling you the difference between...
Mmm. What's Congress doing to improve America's? Health care was a huge issue at the Australian federal election last year. The people won the...
We don't wait for life savings treatments in nations with national, single payer, universal health care systems, Judy. I have stated this several...
Medicaid is an American thing. My understanding is it's some kind of health cover band aid for poor people in a country of privatised medicine...
Completely disagree. Look at the following Bernie Sanders got just for showing up. Look at Podemos and Syriza. Look at history: the Civil Rights...
Do you know one thing I think should be on Medicare and isn't, besides dentistry, of course? LASIK and PRK laser vision correction. Cuts down on a...
Which country are you in Judy? We have waiting lists here for elective and non-urgent treatments, but you never wait for life saving treatment -...
I'm more surprised that public health care still exists anywhere in Russia at all. As I wrote in an earlier post, the place was shattered, it's...
This idea Americans have that health care is rationed in the rest of the industrialised world ( ie, those of us with universal, single payer...
That's a bargain! Much cheaper than bathing in virgin blood and taking it intravenously.
Bias in the MSM?! What an absurd and outrageous idea! Rupert Murdoch have an agenda? Pfft!
That would explain it. It must be working his end but not ours.
Here you go Pete:...
I subscribe to Rupert's rag. It won't let me copy and paste properly, but it says senior Islamic figures have denounced the decision. Senior...
I got your point I just couldn't care less. My mother's generation is very uncomfortable with shaking hands, they consider it a masculine thing...
Most of ours are old, too. Getting to the end of their lives mostly.
Apparently clean coal is a bit of a unicorn. Here's an article link on it. There's quite a bit on the net debunking clean coal if you google it....
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