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As high profile congressional committees debate Barack Obama's health reform bill in Washington D.C., another parallel health care debate is playing out in the picturesque state of Vermont. The differences in both the tenor and the substance of the two debates couldn't be more profound.
It was a Third World scene with an American setting. Hundreds of tired and desperate people crowded around an aid worker with a bullhorn, straining to hear the instructions and worried they might be left out. Some had arrived at the Wise County Fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia, two days before. They drove in from 16 states, anxious to relieve pain, diagnose aches and see and hear better. Wise County Fairgrounds
Perhaps most Americans deserve the federal government they have, a government that, contrary to the lofty rhetoric of Barack Obama, is just politics as usual, a government that is as corrupted by moneyed interests as ever. A government that is as dysfunctional and inefficient as ever.
In the national debate about health care reform absolutely nothing makes less sense than the positive views of much of the public about private health insurers. There is no good reason to have positive views of private health insurers, the companies that have relentlessly increased the costs for very limited health insurance.
While the swine flu virus does not appear to be as potentially devastating as first imagined, environmentalists and some public health activists argue that it should be considered a wake-up call to the public about the conditions in which much of our food is being produced.
As a medley of border violence, recessionary pressure, international criticism and popular acceptance steadily undermines America's decades-long effort to eliminate drugs and drug use, the U.S. movement to legalize marijuana is gaining unprecedented momentum.
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