Single payer works. See Canada, the UK or just about every other first world medical system. Mandatory national insurance also works in theory, and it keeps the health insurance companies in business as well. There were also other ideas on the table that would have probably worked as well. You accuse others of being ideologically entrenched. Look in the mirror. There is usually more than one working answer, compromise chooses which one is used.

It is one way of doing it. I believe the single payer system was another and a few other ideas were on the table as well. The mandatory insurance was the only one that the insurance companies would support and the only one that would get enough votes.

Break a leg and see if you can get insurance before it falls off...

The "lefts" crown jewels was single payer and it failed.

Mandatory national insurance was the sweetener to get the congress critters who were in the pockets of the health insurance lobbyists to vote for the bill. I don't think either side was enthusiastic about it but it was necessary to get the whole thing passed.

Isn't compromise fun?

Many of the schools with division 1 teams also have top rated law schools. Looks like they all have a project for the spring...

and not enough thrust.

"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" -Plato

Not exactly a new problem...

I want to know about the science of:

"This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sensemilia. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff."

I work with a bunch of G5 dual 2.+ GHz machines. I do large format printing and design for trade shows and crunch huge files. Those machine have kept their usefulness a surprisingly long time.

And I have no idea what all this "wind tunnel" crap is, I work on Gig + files consistently and they are as quiet as a mouse...

I wonder how long before someone designs an iphone case that makes it look just like a common Windows phone 7 model?

Or so the apple haters would have you believe...

2009 apple advertising was 1.37% of revenue or $500 million

Microsoft the same year: 2.4% of revenue or 1.4 billion
Dell: 1.3% and 811 million.
RIM: 2.4% and 337 million

Sounds to me like they are less of a "Marketing" company and more of a hardware company putting out better selling products...

In Tahoe, it would be a fairly normal winter. Or have you forgotten that California is a large state and has a rather tall mountain range covering most of the eastern edge of it?

I did but had to give it up when I could not get the new gaming graphics card I bought to work with it...

Except through my history of owning an iphone a number of apps have gone from the purchase model to ad supported model via updates that listed no such thing in the documentation of what the update does. I've deleted or not updated every one that has done so, but still...

It's a problem with the iphone and probably other platforms that is not talked about much. Being very weary about updating. I have way too many apps that I will not update for various reasons. Generally a bad habit to get people used to...

I thought the lessen of GTA was petty crime is OK, but if you go too far you will get a serious beat down by the police that will end with you dead in the middle of a bunch of exploding cars...

Really?

Last time I was in Beijing I could get a good multi course meal for about $15 to $20 per person. Cheap but much more than the 50 cents you allege.
there is almost always a 2 for a dollar candy bar deal at my local supermarket...