Again about healthcare - a small note

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A real and serious issue with exporting any European or Japanese model of universal health coverage to the USA is the size and diversity of the nation. The attempt to micro-manage the British Health Service - by now reduced, thanks to the growth of local parliaments, to England alone - from Westminster is notoriously one of the major problems with

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Yes, thank you for clarifying. It is also my understanding is that evolution is not Catholic dogma, but rather a current position. - It can get sticky when getting into natural selection, etc.

I imagine governing a body of people as colorful as those in Louisiana, like those of neighboring states, Jindal, setting his personal beliefs aside, has a difficult job of answering to his constituents (some products of higher education, others not). I guess you'd have to live amongst them (and here I am speaking mostly of rural folks) to understand what they are about and how they live their lives (which should not be looked down upon).

I have read your concern for those who teach Creationism in public schools, etc. - but rest assured, few children take it seriously, and it will eventually be phased out of all curriculum. (I remember well in rural, southern US, 1980's) that Creationism was mocked in the classroom even when part of the curriculum. Many move on to higher education, even those taught by parents (or faith community) that Evolution is in contradiction to faith, and choose to believe Evolution or at least parts of evolution as our beginning. Others do not move onto higher education, and make the same choices regarding evolution as those who did.

I personally don't think it's a serious (salvific) issue. After all, few would choose to dig up crawfish, harvest cotton, soybeans, sugarcane, produce fuel, serve others who wish to be pampered, and moreover, choose to help those who do the former shovel toxic hurricane muck if they were all downy-handed Evolution-teaching Ph.D.'s., no? We both know, in the end, God's quivver will be full of those who did and didn't believe in Evolution. - isn't that what we should be most concerned about?

I'm sorry if I appear to trivialize a passion for you, I suppose contributing physically to a hurricane relief effort changes one's perspective on such things.

Thank you for the links. :)