This is quite funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rznYifPHxDg

You make an excellent point. Unfortunately it is undermined by posting anonymously. A post that makes the point that individuals should be willing to lose it all should not be sent from the shadows of anonymity.

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cycle=2012&cid=N00029617&type=I

I don't see any obvious IT related industry donors from the past that might be influencing her (who knows about now). She is on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee so thats probably where it came from. Strange.

I'm sorry...I don't want to see how it looks or play with your PyPy. I will most definitely NOT click on your online demo to show your "Assembler".

https://www.innova.com/

I haven't personally tried these but I'm tempted to pick one up and test it out.

I second this nomination, he might not be young in age but he is definitely has done a lot of cool stuff.

Both examples are optional procedures. The real competition isn't with other vets and LASIK practitioners but with the customer's choice to perform said procedures. When it comes to life saving health care people don't look at the cost. Unless people are unwilling to pay X amount of money for life saving procedures and walk out the door (assuming you can in an emergency), health care will always be expensive unless other regulatory limiters bring it down.

I wouldn't worry about people emigrating....odds are they would move to a country with a government run health care system anyway...they just don't realize it. Even Rush made that mistake with this quote:

By the way, Costa Rica has a health care system subsidized by the state:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/357920/costa_rica_a_look_at_its_national_healthcare.html?cat=5

..and with the way real estate prices have gone in the U.S. they won't be moving anytime soon. In 5 years they'll have forgotten about what they were bitching about anyway.

Ah, no...they would be 7th as the U.S. landed 6 times on the moon despite all of those self-centered attitudes and special interest agendas in those days.

We need to work in our local cities and communities to retrofit our urban designs so that we aren't forced into a very expensive lifestyle.
Two great sources to start:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia.html

http://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-American/dp/0865476063/ref=sr_1_20?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263584896&sr=8-20