Well from what I've read your country saves WAY more money on this bill than what is spent on it.
See the link in my comment further down:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1590674&cid=31565886

So seeing this bill from your country's point of view, some of the 'trillion' dollors, saved not spend, are going out to all of it's citizens - resulting in a richer and probably more healthy America...
Try the first two pages to see some huge numbers:
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/113xx/doc11355/hr4872.pdf

... and then there's the 30 million people without cover .... humans are way more important than money, but somehow the discussions always ends up beeing about money, and not the ones that actually make the money in the first place...

"Most of the people living on it [the planet] were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable..." - Douglas Adams

The text of the bill:
http://www.opencongress.org/senate_health_care_bill

The economy of the bill:
http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=508

Congrats from Europe :)

I help friends and family for free. I also help some relatives and co-employers privately, but for them I charge money. And by word of mouth I've gotten more "customers", but I'm backing out of it now. Not because I don't like helping, or because of the money, but because some people seem to think that I'm always available.
They call me desperately again and again and again instead of leaving a message and wait until I have the time to answer. They call me or disturb me with their private computer problems at work. I've even have some people sending me text-messages in the middle of the night with their PC-problems (Mostly it is not the computer that's the problem).
I have a hard time figuring out how these people, that otherwise seem like friendly and kind, can suddenly be so desperate and rude when their PC is broke, or they cannot figure out how to use it. I spend way too much time ignoring desperate calls, and then sometimes giving in and help even though I should be doing something else. My advise to anyone considering going into this business: Help your closest friends and family, but say no to anyone else - they can use one of the many PC-repair shops that exists.

I liked the movie quite a lot.

I got the notion that
1) all the aliens were sick and because of their sickness they could not think clear enough to do anything beyond basic things.
2) they were all on drugs -> catfood

The only thing they needed the fuel for was the little ship - the little ship might have been the easiest way to operate the big ship - but in their condition and situation it took them 20 years to build it.
The kid and his father were not eating catfood, the father, somehow, had gotten well. The kid was probably born in the district and not sick at all.

Agreed - it is very weird that the fuel also acts as a virus/bioweapon ... but I think that's the only flaw in the movie.