If you missed the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday evening, here's a glimpse. This was seriously mind blowing, a country where the people pay higher taxes for nationalized health care, and they celebrate it. The mere mention of it in the U.S. makes the right-wing recoil in horror and hiss all at once.
"It’s something that is very dear to people's hearts. If you live here, you will end up there, it does not matter how rich or powerful you are.
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Arguably the oddest moment in Friday's Olympic opening ceremony was the tribute to Britain's National Health Service, the very triumph of civilization that is busily being reformed after decades of serving dissatisfied customers and... Read Post
Managing to squeeze politics into the opening ceremony of the Olympics on Friday, NBC hosts Matt Lauer and Meredith Vieira cheered a tribute to Britain's government-run National Health Service, with Lauer declaring: "Back in the sta... Read Post
By Richard K. Barry I will admit that I watched some, though not all, of the London Olympics opening ceremonies. I completely missed the tribute to Britain's National Health Service (NHS), the country's publicly-funded system that o... Read Post