Dunno what all the resistance is to 'socialized' medicine; maybe because I grew up north of the border. I thank fuck we have it, though. I got great (and fast) treatment when I had cancer and I'm still breathing because of it(insert comeback here).

I know Michael Moore is a douche, but he made kind of an interesting point about how Americans don't pay private fees for police or Fire Dept. emergencies, as they are often a matter of life-and-death. He made the comparison with medical treatment. Maybe that's just naive.

60 minutes once did a story on a program that help pay the fees for medical students on the condition that they'd spend some time working in poor communities once they became doctors (sadly, it was an investigation of doctors who had skipped out on their end).....