[Magdalen] celebrating at MGH

[Roger Stokes]

On 25/06/2015 17:00, ME Michaud wrote:
> I happened to be waiting for the (traffic) light at the corner of Cambridge
> and North Grove (and listening to NPR) this morning when the Supreme Court
> decision was announced. I saw nurses high-fiving and dancing on the
> sidewalk.
>
> Medicare for everybody!

As Jay said, not till you get an executive and legislature that wants 
it.  The insurance industry and healthcare providers (and those they 
support) won't becaise it would hamper their bargaining position, and 
hence their profits.

I think this is the only sensible decision to have reached because 
otherwise it would have been a very narrow interpretation of "state".  I 
know we don't have states as you have them in the USA but I think of 
"the state" as the whole sytem of civil government at its various 
levels.  Do people regard federal law as different in application and 
effect, apart from the enforcement and court structure?

Roger, who has started on a load of engagement with our state-organized 
National Health Service.  Today it was ordering noew eye-glasses, which 
I suspected I would need.  Tomorrow it's the doctor to talk about high 
blood-pressure and cholesterol, so probably a different drug regime for 
that.  Next on the list is the dentist for a delayed check-ip and 
probably more work needing done there.