Obama's Speech to Kids

The Martian Chronicles has a good review of Obama's speech to students titled If This is Socialist Progaganda, Please Send More.

Swissification of the U.S.

Krugman has a simple classification of healthcare systems as the British, French/Canadian, or Swiss options and says that the Obama plan essential reprsents the latter. I agree with Krugman that this is probably the worst of the three but much better than our current system.