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U.S. Healthcare Legislation Investment Impact

All this bickering makes me sick. Profits before patients! Patients before profits! Many other countries have found that some form of national health care works. Why can't we benefit from their experience and develop something that's even better?

Sure, those companies that can't compete successfully would be in trouble if our health care system is ever reformed. However, they have had decades to prepare for this day. The better-run companies will still prove to be good investments in the long run. Rather than fighting socioeconomic progress, businesses and investors should be supporting this entire effort.

We Americans typically think of ourselves as No. 1 in everything that's good. However, when it comes to health care, the World Health Organization reports that the U.S. ranks much lower than many other countries that spend far less on health care than the U.S., as a percent of GDP. (For example, see www.photius.com/rankin....)

We're obviously not getting our money's worth. If health care reform legislation ever passes, it will probably end up being very beneficial for many businesses and most Americans. If so, then maybe the U.S. can show the world that we're truly No. 1 in just about everything good.

Ethanol: A Few Myths Debunked

"I believe ethanol is the answer to our oil dependence. I said it in a previous post ValuePlays Portfolio member Archer Daniels Midland ticker ADM (ADM) is the best way to go if you want to invest in it."

Wow! THE solution to our over-dependence on foreign oil AND a stock recommendation from an avowed expert on both! What about a huge dose of ENERGY CONSERVATION here in America NOW while corn ethanol and all the other alternative-energy technologies are being developed? Naive? I guess so, unless someone like Al Gore is running the show, nothing like that will ever happen. We will continue leading the world into a total mess that children born today will have to deal with because our political leaders were too stupid, greedy, and selfish to take appropriate action NOW before it's too late.