daveon | So that healthcare thing...

As most people know I'm pro-Universal Healthcare - apart from believing that it's a very fiscally conservative position to hold (look at the numbers Jordan and other idiots) - it's the right thing to do.

I was therefore surprised to hear the result of the Supreme Court decision. There's some nuance in there and it's partly clear that Roberts wanted to set something up to gut the Commerce Clause, but also had to fit in with what pretty much everybody who knew their way around the constitution said they had to rule.

I'm still shocked and saddened when I read or interact with people who are anti-Universal healthcare. Watching the US at the moment as a resident is something of an odd experience, especially as the national chest beating of July 4th rolls around. There's stuff to be proud of. But there is nothing in how US society really treats people to be all that proud of. When I see thousands of Americans turn up at football stadiums for a chance of seeing a doctor or dentist. Or that areas are going away from paved roads because they can't pay for them, I start to wonder how anybody can hold their head up high.

I've read a lot about freedom and people determined to keep their insurance, or not wanting to 'help the lazy'.

Well, as Terry Practchett said in Going Postal (and I paraphrase): The nature of man may well to be free, but it is also natural for them to hide in trees from the wolves.