Dissendent Part II

I don't care what the news says: this country is more deeply in trouble than it has been since WWII.
We have an acceptance of a criminal culture that sends 13-year-olds to death. We have another quote "inner city" country within us that we won't or can't acknowledge. We have a government that will gladly bail out Wall St., but will argue on and on about "choice" in any government health plan, which are so obviously better than the private insurers it is unreal.
Here's the choice: we either accept higher taxation specifically tailored to health care or people die in emergency rooms. Every other westernized nation has accepted this; it takes Bob Dole in arguing that GM would be competitive in the world market if it does not have to pay enormous health care and pension bills to make it almost hit home here.
As for "a nameless bureaucrat" deciding who gets to decide who gets which care, well, how is that different from a Humana Health Care drone deciding the same thing? Stop being babies and face up to health care as part of your cost of living. Even if it means higher taxes (an NYT poll concluded that people would, or at least they might.)
My father says that the US has been arguing about universal health care since the 1940s. Are we ready yet?