Mike Ault wrote on November 27, 2009 08:39 PM: @John
The ameliaslongjourney.com link does not work.

@Greg
Go away...

Greg wrote on November 27, 2009 04:55 PM: Correction to Greg Post below:

Paragraph two, sentence two should state, "it does not go far enough to contain costs and reward healthcare delivery based on outcomes-success".

I went a few words over the 300 total. :)

MAV wrote on November 27, 2009 08:59 AM: To Abolish_public_education...

I can't believe you actually said "We shouldn't spend money on kids who don't want to be there."

Are you nuts???

These are ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS!!!

Many of their parents are the working poor, living in the Budget Suites on Boulder Highway. When their parents get evicted from these places, maybe for not paying rent on time or spending their money on drugs, it is not the child's fault. Many of these children actually "want" to go to school because it is the only stability they have in their unstable lives.

We MUST educate these children as best as we possibly can; if we don't, we are simply reproducing generation after generation of people like their parents.

Public Education made this country's economy strong. Public Education is now making places like Singapore and India the hubs of invention and innovation. Unless you want to live in Afghanistan, do not abolish public education.

Greg wrote on November 27, 2009 08:09 AM: Mr. Smith" Referencing your statement about "Senator Reid's" healthcare bill, first this is not Mr. Reid's bill, though he deserves central credit in his leadership role for procedural expertise and experience in moving it forward.

This bill belongs to a lot of people with diverse skills and expertise in healthcare who have provided their input. The bill is not perfect, it does not go far enough to contain costs and , but that is because of the hundreds of millions spent by special interests to protect old interests.

Those who actually are in the business of providing healthcare in this country, in the best possible way, including Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and Sloan-Kettering, add experts on healthcare business at Harvard, DO NOT BELEIVE IT GOES FAR ENOUGH IN REFORM.

A great many Americans feel the same way.

My advice to you is to investigate and write a case study-book with financial outcomes on a typical American middle class family with parents in old age, who are taking care of someone maimed or with neurological problems from either war in their home. Add one parent going into nursing home care, with the middle class estate looking at the impact of nursing home reimbursement taxation (you die, you repay), down to $104,000 of surviving spouse, sans a special trust, which we all know to be dodge for the taxes those without the expertise, time and resources will not pay.

Who's fighting and paying for two wars? Middle and lower class Americans, through 2003 Tax Recovery Act.

You are an excellent investigative reporter.

Few in Nevada have earned the right to make statements about national healthcare reform, based on the lack of leadership, expertise and funding in Nevada for many years toward healthcare structure and delivery.

Senator Reid is doing the right thing for Nevada, and for

Abolish_public_education wrote on November 27, 2009 07:25 AM: Whitney Elementary School is one of the neediest in Clark County.

As of 3 years ago, only about 1/3 of Whitney's kids were "proficient" (whatever that means) or better in reading. They don't need turkeys.

Abolish truancy laws. Probably >80% of these kids will dropout. We shouldn't spend money on kids who don't want to be there.