Quote Originally Posted by blackraven
Feanor, you take me all wrong. ...
BR, I'm sorry if I have misconstrued your remarks on occassion. Certainly I have always taken you for a person of good intent.

The thing is that watching US media, Canadians like me have been higly sensitized, not to criticism of the actual weakness of the system here, but to the exagerations and misrepresentations that have been proliferated by the enemies of progress in the US.

I'm afraid that you are right the US just isn't ready to embrace a universal, single payor system. Obama understands that which is why he back-peddled on the idea. This was in aid of the bipartisanship which he also believed in. However every concilliatory gesture of cooperation has been turned to a sign of weakness. Seemingly the hatred of progressive ideas is so great to conservative Republicans that they have put their need to see Obama fail and thwart the Democrat victory ahead of the good of the country.