Unfortunately, in this case the consituency is acting like a bunch of sheep and following erroneous information to the detriment of their fellow citizens.  There were no death panels.  Health care is not available to all.  The opposition to the health care reform was a farce propagated by the hysterically emotional and selfish.

Completely free markets do not work when we’re talking about issues of individual rights.  A completely free market leads to monopolies, as done in the past.  Or quasi-monopolies, as we see with the current insurance industry.   They know that if they all behave equally poorly, they will earn quite a bit of money as the people they screw over often don’t live long enough to really object, or they are too poor to do so.

Removing the state barrier will make the competion a little stronger for young healthy people with jobs that allow them to obtain health care.  It will in no way improve things for those who have prior conditions or do not have employment that allows them to access health care.  There is no financial benefit to it.  But, as a suposedly civilized first world country, we owe all our citizens basic health care.

Oh I completely disagree.  Joint custody is the only way to go, as long as there is no abuse going on.  Once a kid is past the breast feeding stage, there is nothing special that a mother gives that a father can not and vice versa.

People who "share" generally don’t have feelings of ownership towards their significant other.  Also, we understand that there are all sorts of different loves in a person’s life.  In any case, this has nothing to do with a person who breaks the promises he or she makes towards a significant other. 

Oh come on, you don’t need to be dressed provocatively.  When I was in college guys would hit on me while I rode the light rail from my morning training sessions despite the fact that I was sweaty, smelly, wearing sweat-pants, a baggy t-shirt, a sport-bra and had uncombed hair stuffed into a messy pony tail.  When you’re in the city and either by yourself or with one other girl, you’re going to get hit on regardless of what you’re wearing. 

As I’ve posted above, the numbers do not agree with your story.  I’m sorry that you believe that the facts have a liberal bias.

Well, the first proposals put on the table were to include a public option for those who needed health insurance and couldn’t afford it and none of them would have affected people’s existing health options.  But the ignorant hysteria about how there would be death panels and how people didn’t want to pay for "those lazy bums" have removed this as an option.

But, as for the difference in health care between here, the Czech Republic, Enelgand and Spain, it’s important to look at hard numbers rather than comparing stories as a person’s preception and biases will color how they view everything.

 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html

Life Expectancy (rank,country,year)

23 Spain 80.05 2009 est.
36 United Kingdom 79.01 2009 est. 
50 United States 78.11 2009 est. 
61 Czech Republic 76.81 2009 est.

Infant Mortality (rank,country,deaths/1000 live births)

211 Czech Republic 3.79 2009 est. 
208 Spain 4.21 2009 est. 
192 New Zealand 4.92 2009 est. 
180 United States 6.26 2009 est. 

 I’ve included both life expectancy and infant mortality because while there is a strong correlation between health care and life expectancy, the lifestyles of the people in question also have an effect.  (i.e. people who eat better and exercise can offset worse health care.)  However, infant mortality is almost 100% correlated with health care availability as babies generally haven’t had time to acquire bad eating habits….