DISQUS

The drug and insurance companies have no 'place at the table' in the health care reform discussion. They deserve to go to prison. Forever. An awful prison, like in really old movies.

Mandatory "insurance" feels more like forcible rape than help.

The solution is a National Health Service for the United States, like what they have in the UK. At present, the US wastes about $7200 per person per year on a health care system that is largely illusory. The British NHS spends about $2900 (USD equivalent) per person per year to actually provide medical care (including dental care and vision services).

How to pay for the US National Health Service? Easy: a Federal 15% Value Added Tax. In 2008 consumer expenditures totaled $9953 billion; if 90% of these expenditures were subjected to a 15% VAT, the Federal government would have collected about $1340 billion from the VAT alone.

If this 15% VAT was combined with the elimination of all Federal income taxes on the bottom 95% of incomes, and the top 5% of incomes were subject to a 50% Federal income tax, we would have ended up with about $1693 billion in additional tax revenue in 2008. More than enough to cover the estimated $918 billion dollar cost to fully fund the US National Health Service, and provide an additional $775 billion for other uses.

> W3C School

It's "W3 Schools", not "W3C School". They have absolutely nothing to do with the W3C, they just picked a name to con people into thinking they are somehow more official than the other crappy tutorial sites.

I assumed you were the author because... well, how on earth can you complain about others dropping by, showing interest and commenting when you are doing exactly that?

Why did *you* come? Why did *you* comment? What did *you* want?

Are you stuck in some kind of time warp where it's a two month old post for the rest of us, but a new post for you? No? Then why the puzzlement at people commenting on a two month old post? In fact, why aren't you criticising Jeff for writing an article about something that has been knocking around for a lot longer than two months?

> so why did you come? why did you comment? what did you want?

Why did you write it if you don't want people to read it? Why do you allow comments when you don't want them?

Why should we listen to Linus? He's got a Finnish accent.

I don't pronounce "Microsoft" with an American accent just because the guys who started it are American, and I don't pronounce "Linux" with a Finnish accent just because the guy who started it is Finnish.

Why should we listen to Linus? He's got a Finnish accent.

I don't pronounce "Microsoft" with an American accent just because the guys who started it are American, and I don't pronounce "Linux" with a Finnish accent just because the guy who started it is Finnish.