"While we have the best Doctors, Surgeons, Nurses, Testing Equipment, etc. we have arguably, the worst health delivery system of any industrialized country."

WHAT? How did you come up with this one? Having been to most industrialized countries, and lots of third-world nations, I can unequivocally say our healthcare delivery system is at the top of the list--NOT THE BOTTOM. I have relatives in the UK and Canada that come here for surgical procedures and medical care. They'll tell you first hand that the health-care delivery systems in their part of the world doesn't give a damned of you live or die--you're just another number on a very long list and you're at the end of a very long, bureaucratic line. While it has been many years since I worked in medicine, I've seen the results first hand. Until you've been there, done that and got the Tee-shirt, don't knock the U.S. health-care delivery system. Spend 15 years working in a large, inner-city hospital and you'll get to see things you won't believe.

Sure, our infant mortality rate is high, but keep in mind that we report everything--not just the good stuff. We report birth mortalities from crack-heads, heroin addicts, coke-heads, huffers, etc.., where many other nations place those deaths in different categories, which makes their infant mortality rate appear much lower than it really is. You will not find this in the liberal press--you'll only get this information by reading the actual studies, which most people will never take time to do.

Damned I hate politics, politicians, and all the SOB's currently in office. Bill, I wish you would not have posted this--even in the bar.

I need a drink,

Gary