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French President Sarkozy backs U.S. health plan
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I laughed when Jon Stewart showed video of his lecture quoted below on his show.

Sarkozy backs U.S. health plan
By Verena Dobnik and Angela Charlton

Associated Press

NEW YORK - Visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy, shedding diplomatic protocol, plunged into the U.S. health-care debate yesterday - endorsing the controversial law.
"Welcome to the club of states who don't turn their back on the sick and the poor," Sarkozy said, referring to the U.S. health care overhaul signed by President Obama last week.

From the European perspective, he said, addressing hundreds of students and faculty at New York's Columbia University, "when we look at the American debate on reforming health care, it's difficult to believe."

"The very fact that there should have been such a violent debate simply on the fact that the poorest of Americans should not be left out in the streets without a cent to look after them . . . is something astonishing to us."

Then to hearty applause, he said: "If you come to France and something happens to you, you won't be asked for your credit card before you're rushed to the hospital."

The French leader was accompanied by his wife, ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

He is in hot water at home, his poll ratings are at record lows of around 30 percent, and there are cracks in his conservative party.

In New York, though, he basked in the rapt attention of the students and even jettisoned a prepared speech.

"Speeches kill off creativity," he said. "I'm going to speak from the heart."

Perhaps to belie bloggers' reports of strains in their celebrity marriage, the two arrived tightly clutching hands.

The two are to have a private dinner with President and Mrs. Obama today.




Does anyone care what the French president has to say about American healthcare or does the man have a point?

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Re: French President Sarkozy backs U.S. health plan [Re: mr.bixby]
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mr.bixby said:
Does anyone care what the French president has to say about American healthcare or does the man have a point?


Not if he doesn't have anything substantial to say.

I'm pretty much not really interested in anything any politician has to say about the bill at this point. They either claim it for their side as a victory for the poor and the sick (which it isn't) or they demonize it to win votes as the "socialization" of American medicine (which it isn't). I'm only interested in what my doctors have to say about it, and what the insurance companies say and do in the coming years, and how many more or less thousands of dollars I have to spend to stay healthy and alive.

But that is this guys point of view.


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Re: French President Sarkozy backs U.S. health plan [Re: gluke bastid]
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Ummmmmmm it doesn't much help the poor any more than the previous plans but it definitely is socialist.  Leading Democrats have admitted it is wealth redistribution pure and simple.

This bill harms far more people than it helps.


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Re: French President Sarkozy backs U.S. health plan [Re: zappaisgod]
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France backs our plan?

Socialism.

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Re: French President Sarkozy backs U.S. health plan [Re: memes]
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Sarkozy probably backs it because it damages a competitor.  Almost as much as similar nonsense has fucked France.


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Re: French President Sarkozy backs U.S. health plan [Re: mr.bixby]
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Then to hearty applause, he said: "If you come to France and something happens to you, you won't be asked for your credit card before you're rushed to the hospital."


You won't be asked for a credit card before being rushed to the hospital in the US.  Emergency rooms were (and still are) required to treat emergencies regardless of ones ability to pay for treatment.


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Re: French President Sarkozy backs U.S. health plan [Re: mr.bixby]
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mr.bixby said:
"Welcome to the club of states who don't turn their back on the sick and the poor,"



I dont put much stock in what the frenchies say about the poor

1 million people in France are legally homeless
population of france 65,073,482
http://www.homelessworldcup.org/content/homelessness-statistics

On July 29, 2008, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that homelessness in the US had declined by 30% between 2005 and 2007, with chronic homelessness falling from 175,914 to 123,833.
US population 300,000,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_States#2000s


it's also not as if the french have working health care system either

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2007/08/27/french-health-care-expert-frances-system-broken-should-copy-us-media-


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