Once again looking for some help

[ericcoleman]

I'm working on a song and I want some opinions. What do you think is wrong with this country?

Here are the ground rules.
1 - I want to hear from my friends on the right as well as my friends on the left.
2 - If someone says something that you don't agree with ... tough. This thread is a place for someone's opinion, not a discussion, not an argument. Responses to other people's comments here are not allowed, not even from me.
3 - If you post in this thread, read everyone else's comments, and try to give them all credit.

I want to make this song not just from my point of view. I'm trying to make it something bigger. Now admittedly my politics are quite left of center, so I can't help but have that point of view in there somewhere, but I want more to this song. It may be more than I can manage, but I want to try.

Oh, and if you are uncomfortable posting here but still want to contribute, email me at ericcoleman at gmail dot com.

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[nomaddervish.livejournal.com]

On another journal, I just saw a post from someone who recently moved to California from outside the US and has a chronic, non-behavioural, medical condition which, if not treated multiple times daily, will kill him/her within a matter of weeks, if not sooner. S/he is basically uninsurable by normal means and has been told that an application for the CA state high-risk insurance pool will take a minimum of 3-4 months to be approved, possibly longer. If s/he can come up with the money to buy medications out of pocket to survive that long, of course.

By most accounts, the US spends at least twice as much on health care per capita as the rest of the industrialized world, yet we somehow rank near the bottom on many indicators of its quality, even for those who are able to get it at all.