Quote:Still waiting for Biff's paper. I mean we basically wrote it for him, shouldn't we get the final results... He better have gotten an A (unless he route copied my terrible grammar in which case he gets a C).

 Good stuff. I will give my opinion after I get back from the dentist's this afternoon. For a bit of a teaser, though, I will say this: So far I have read some pretty good posts, but I don't recall any that were in the same spirit as what I plan on addressing. Think benchmarks. Second, I think resolving our health care mess is and should be the number one issue our government addresses over the next two years. To me the proportional airtime in the media and political circles about all other politics vs. healthcare is pretty amazingly bad. Of course I think all mass media is about worthless as [BLEEP] on a boar hog, so maybe that shouldn't be too surprising, but I digress. To put it in some kind of perspective, a great deal of airtime goes to Trump's travel order. I agree, terrorism is not good, and although we haven't had many big attacks, 9/11 was not a good day. Furthermore, the U.S. response was costly, with the entire war cost about 2 trillion dollars. However we could fund all of that in just the overage between what we pay for health care vs the next most expensive country over a two year period. I have also read that the number of deaths due to our current system ranges anywhere from 5 to 10 times the losses of 9/11 .. every year. So yeah, I think it's kind of a big deal. 

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