Julie

"You can say the same thing about conservatives. Why don't we ALL try to be less hateful? It starts with not pointing the finger at each other." - Julie

"It's embarrassing that something like project Northwoods was considered seriously. It reminds me of the movie "Brazil," which is a must-see for "dystopian future" fans." - Julie

"@Haily Thanks! I run linux and for some reason CNN video has never worked for me. That's interesting. Although, I'm always trying to make myself walk more . . . so I can't imagine I would really use such a thing :P" - Julie

"The title of this article cracked me up." - Julie

"The only thing I play is farmtown. I ignore everything else." - Julie

"And they say Obama hasn't done anything!" - Julie

"The only thing worse than making a bad decision to begin with is sticking by that bad decision before you refuse to admit you were wrong. Come on, justice system!" - Julie

"@blackxgambit It seems backwards in general that any industry could, or should, make a profit from the sick. Maybe that's not a very "American" thing for me to think, but I like to think we're not THAT heartless of a people." - Julie

"@Haily How do you know it's great? You're a senior in high school, right? I don't mean to discredit your opinion, but chances are you have never had to think about health insurance or how much it costs. When I got married and was no longer covered my mom's insurance, it was a huge shock to think about paying for it on my own. I went without insurance for years. Now I have it but the deductible is so high it's basically worthless." - Julie

"@tippyskier For one, we would save on administrative costs, as I previously mentioned. Just think about it-- we would save millions at least, possibly billions each year, just streamlining the paperwork. Some people who currently work with the administrative aspects would lose their jobs, but most people would be re-trained (or given more training) to work as health care professionals. We will need more actual doctors and nurses because everyone would ave access to health care. The money we save on paperwork would help facilitate this training. We will also save incalculable amount of money by lowering our number of Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions, which are basically cases of people whose condition could have been treated early on in a primary care setting but they waiting until it got bad. The US has an extremely high level of these, I believe higher than any other developed nation, because people either don't have insurance to go to a regular physician or they can't afford the..." - Julie

"This really makes me wish I had carpet in my house. Crocheted rugs always get torn up on my floor." - Julie

<br/>Last summer, Crafster user Enemyairship debuted this magnificent 7' x 7' Raccoon Mario Rug, hand crocheted from 3.5" granny squares. ZOMGwonderful. - Julie

"@janejas Blowing a guy's head off in a videogame = perfectly ok seeing a part of the human body = OMG WHERE'S MY LAWYER" - Julie

"@tippyskier "It is not the insurance companies fault. It is the cost of doing business in the healthcare world." No, it's the cost of doing health care in America. Our health care system is literally off the charts with respect to cost, yet we lag behind in life expectancy and we have higher rates of infant mortality and preventable death. In 2006, the US spent 15.3% of its Gross Domestic Product on health care. The next highest countries surveyed were Switzerland, France and Germany who spent 11.3%, 11.1% and 10.6%, respectively (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a coalition of 19 developed countries). Switzerland, France and Germany all have universal health care which means they cover every single one of their citizens AND it costs them significantly less than we pay to do it. Spending per capita in the US on health care in 2006 was $6,714, over $2,000 more than the next highest (Norway) and more than twice the average for OECD countries. In fact, our health..." - Julie

"@ravenber You're a communist, aren't you?" - Julie

"Terrible how much debt Bush put us in. We had a surplus at the beginning of his presidency. It's going to take a long time and a lot of hard work to undue that." - Julie