This is when you know reform is needed:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

The Economist praises the Swedish health care system over the American on issues of incentives.

Article linked here:

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13899647

Also....an image worth keeping in mind for defenders of the broken system:



Now, there's something wrong with this picture. See if you can tell me what it is.....

X-posted from my own LJ.

Comments

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

It was facing you, silly.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

uh-huh.

Face it

[kadeshaderow.livejournal.com]

It went over your head. You had a blonde moment. Don't dig the hole deeper.

Re: Face it

[dwer.livejournal.com]

uh, no. Jeff rarely goes over anyone's head.

Then it must be that much more embarassing for you that you missed it

[kadeshaderow.livejournal.com]

n/t

Re: Then it must be that much more embarassing for you that you missed it

[dwer.livejournal.com]

you should stop talking.

How about no

[kadeshaderow.livejournal.com]

n/t

Re: How about no

[dwer.livejournal.com]

well, ok. you reap what you sow. Good luck with that.

If you drive a car into my house, your tears filled with impotent internet rage, I will be upset

[kadeshaderow.livejournal.com]

Then I'll laugh at you.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

I wonder how come whenever there's some quarrel around, its always you on the one of the sides involved. Care to explain?

The fact that this time it involved dwer is not surprising at all though, but this doesnt make my point moot.

[kadeshaderow.livejournal.com]

It's my specialty.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

Yup, noticed that.

My card

[kadeshaderow.livejournal.com]

I specialize in bringing an end to pedantic lines of argument by annoying the other person until they flip their keyboard and stop posting.

Examples:
Squidboi (http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/198259.html?thread=11782003#t11782003)
The already mentioned dwer
mcpreacher, except for this, which I hope you can agree was just plain mean (http://community.livejournal.com/talk_politics/201052.html?thread=11934556#t11934556)

etc. etc. etc.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

It's not always him. There happen to be a great many quarrels here. It's just that he's pretty adept at quarreling.

TBH, paft and dwer seem to be the ones in the center of most "quarrels." And you know what? They deserve all the shit that comes at them.

[abomvubuso.livejournal.com]

I'm not going to judge who deserves what, but i couldnt help making the observation. And sure, every one of us has a certain threshold of quarrel-proneness.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

He's a tad more prone to getting into verbal fisticuffs, but that's just part of his character. No harm done, really.

Re: Face it

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

WOW.

Of all the moments of stupidity I've seen on the intarwebs...this one wins.

If you seriously can't get it, then you are functionally retarded.

Re: Face it

[dwer.livejournal.com]

if you seriously think that I didn't understand what he was trying to say -- never mind the fact that it didn't work -- then you must be a conservitard functionally republican.

Duh.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

I don't think you did. You're just saying this now to save face, but we all saw it.

Sorry bub. You don't get away on this one.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

you can see whatever the fuck you want -- it's not like you aren't wearing blinders already anyway.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

Oh, is little dwer throwing a temper tantrum? Is he?

[dwer.livejournal.com]

I'm laughing at you. Or did that go over your head? Not difficult with it buried in the sand like that.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

How you could get anything over the head of a 6'3" individual is beyond me. Or where you get it that my head is in the sand. Here's a hint: those rumblings you hear aren't other people talking, that's feet.

Oh, and another hint: when everyone else is laughing at you and calling you stupid, sometimes its not because they're the stupid ones, its because you're the stupid one.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

physician, heal thyself.

[ghoststrider.livejournal.com]

Let's see, you have Jeff, Kade, Bruce, Gunslnger, even mahnmut at times....yeah, like I need the medication.