Comments on: Health Care Reform, More Than Just a Makeover http://www.recoveryview.com/2009/10/health-care-reform-more-than-just-a-makeover/ An online journal for professionals in the fields of Addiction and Behavioral Health. Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:31:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom Degan http://www.recoveryview.com/2009/10/health-care-reform-more-than-just-a-makeover/comment-page-1/#comment-132 Tom Degan Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:39:41 +0000 http://recoveryview.com/?p=456#comment-132 My younger brother Jeff is the shame of the Degan family. He not only lives in France, he actually likes it there. He has a French wife and two gorgeous little French daughters. Honestly I think the guy is a closet commie. Back in August, in a letter to his fellow countrymen and women regarding health care, he ended it by saying: "In short, in the US, you pay more, get less, and die younger than we do in Europe. What part of that don't you understand?" Well, hey there! That's a danged good question! What part of that don't we understand? Why is it that so many of us have to be dragged, kicking and screaming like half-witted little preschoolers, into the brave new world of change? What the hell is the matter with us anyway? How can it be that such a huge number of Americans cheerfully join movements of mass stupidity and salivate on cue to the sound of Dr. Glenn "Pavlov" Beck's bell? It kind of ma Goshen, NYkes you wonder, huh? www.tomdegan.blogspot.com Tom Degan Goshen, NY My younger brother Jeff is the shame of the Degan family. He not only lives in France, he actually likes it there. He has a French wife and two gorgeous little French daughters. Honestly I think the guy is a closet commie. Back in August, in a letter to his fellow countrymen and women regarding health care, he ended it by saying:

“In short, in the US, you pay more, get less, and die younger than we do in Europe. What part of that don’t you understand?”

Well, hey there! That’s a danged good question! What part of that don’t we understand? Why is it that so many of us have to be dragged, kicking and screaming like half-witted little preschoolers, into the brave new world of change? What the hell is the matter with us anyway? How can it be that such a huge number of Americans cheerfully join movements of mass stupidity and salivate on cue to the sound of Dr. Glenn “Pavlov” Beck’s bell? It kind of ma
Goshen, NYkes you wonder, huh?

http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

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