that has zero to do with overall health or per capita spending. did i say it would be easy, or just preferable?
the er handles emergencies. you cannot just show up to any er in the country and get a routine check-up. the er is not anyone's primary care physician. yes, if you are dying or injured, an emergency room is required to treat you. they are also allowed to charge you after the fact. most hospitals have plans or policies to help alleviate the financial burden for poorer patients or ones without insurance, but that doesn't mean the financial implications aren't significant. for example, my dad, who works for a hospital, needed knee surgery a few years ago. we still had to pay some $8000 or more for it, after insurance, and we make less than 50k per year. maybe you're rich, i don't know, but for most of the country, healthcare costs are a significant worry.
the nsa has been wrong the whole time, too, and rather than standing up to the violation of americans' rights, the congress kowtowed to trumped up fears about the big mooooslem boogeyman. and chumps like you buy it because it's only statism when it helps poor people, right?
for one, the post i wrote (if you read it) was talking about things mccain supports, such as an amendment banning flag burning (speech) and a yes-man, sycophant press corps (see bush vs. msnbc crap over the last few weeks).
and those laws, which you claim to have read, allow the administration to:
1. remove habeas corpus for some 12 million other people who are here legally but are not citizens
and
2. define whether or not AMERICAN CITIZENS are or are not enemy combatants, who can then have they rights removed if they as well if they are determined to be enemy combatants
it's not GONE per se, but then again that's what de facto means, isn't it?
