Bush should have brought Osama to justice or shot him when he had the chance. I said privtely at the time if they had the opportunity to kill or capture him they would likely let him go. Why? to capture him at that time would have destroyed public support they were building to attack Iraq.

Which I felt correctly at the time they were going to do inspite of any facts, Bush was determined to get Saddam regardless of the cost.

Perhaps they are correct, let those who have no insurance receive care at the ER at a higher cost and those who have insurance and the taxpayers can pick up the rest like we do now. So we do not save medicare the 200 billion or so, that does not count either.

Lets do exactly nothing, then in about 10-20 years when over half of the population does not have insurance we can pass a single payer system, like should be done now.

Does the accounting take in to account what the increase in cost will be without any reform? That would be an intresting number to have also, including of course all of costs to people and businesses not having insurance, like death. lost time at work, emergency room expences, increased disablity benifits that the taxpayers pay, it would come up to a big number also. Perhaps more that 6.75 Billion if one is careful with there addition.

Anybody can add up numbers, but is that really the question we should be focused on?

There are 10,000 extraordinarily rich families in America, and some of them fund class warfare.

It’s pathetic that people like Crowley are duped by them.

The Cato Institute openly advocates for free market policies at virtually any cost (read, opposes regulations of almost any kind), promotes small government, and they’re climate change denyers. It’s conservative history is well-documented. About the only thing you can say for them is they’re generally non-interventionist. The neocons could have listened to them more intently round about 2003.