Albert Meyer

Obama's Healthcare Reform: 2 Winners, 2 Losers

I'm not in favor of any government run programs, but considering what we are spending ($12 billion per month ) to "maintian the integrity of the United Nations," as George Bush put it, and building more schools in Pakistan, as Biden pleaded for during a debate with Barbie, I'd vote for universal health care. What about the billion dollars Rice sent to Georgia, the country not the state.

Obviously, the neocons had too much money on their hands and embarked on expensive foreign wars, without having to consider costs. Add universal health care to the budget and maybe our foreign empire, which is a trillion dollar per annum black hole, and it might encourage fiscal discipline. We spend taxpayers money on defense, Canada spends it on healthcare. Healthcare instead of warfare sounds a good slogan to me. We have entered an new era of the nanny-state after the fashion of Europe - sad but seems inevitable.

Oh, by the way, TEVA is the world's largest generic manufacturer and my pick in this space.