links for 2009-08-26

“After the needless death of his father, [David Goldhill], a business executive, began a personal exploration of a health-care industry that for years has delivered poor service and irregular quality at astonishingly high cost. It is a system, he argues, that is not worth preserving in anything like its current form. And the health-care reform now being contemplated will not fix it.”

“The same people who brag about how this is the best country on earth vote against giving health care to all children.” When foreigners kill Americans, it’s time to Batten Down The Hatches, Drain The Treasury! When poorly-built levees fail in a hurricane and kill Americans, Better Luck Next Time. When Americans get sick and die because of the lack of access to increasingly expensive healthcare, Sucks To Be You.