After watching the finesse and experience of Canada and Great Britain's men and women's curling teams in action, it's no wonder that the US men's and women's teams have sunk like stones.

I wonder how many of those watching these events realize that most of the countries represented at the Winter Olympics have universal health care, but not the United States.

And the Rube Goldberg health care follies that the DINO Obama administration unveils tomorrow is indicative of just how shamefully and tragically the US continues to miserably trail other industrialized nations in quality affordable health care for all.

The reality is that the corporatist White House and Congress, led by spineless Wussacrats, are deceiving and betraying regular Americans and consigning tens of thousands yearly to unnecessary death because of lack of health care.  

Obama and the majority Democratic Congress continue to prove they're not real Democrats by slapping ineffective band-aids on a gaping wound and calling it a success or claiming that it's the best they can do while they and their GOP hypocritical colleagues are covered by top notch health care provided by the government.

Physicians for a National Health Care Program explain the reality at CommonDreams:  "President Obama's health care proposal, preserving as it does a central role for the for-profit, private health insurance industry, is incapable of achieving the kind of universal, comprehensive and affordable reform the country needs, a spokesman for a national doctors' group said Wednesday.

" 'Regrettably, the president's proposal is built on some of the worst aspects of the Senate bill,' " said Dr. Quentin Young, national coordinator of Physicians for a National Health Program, an organization of 17,000 doctors who support single-payer, Medicare-for-All approach to reform. Young's statement comes on the eve of the president's bipartisan summit in Washington.

" 'For example, the president's proposal would ship hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to the private health insurance industry in the form of subsidies,' Young said. 'And to help finance this, it would impose a new tax on health benefits of workers, especially those in high-cost states'

" 'Its individual mandate would force millions of middle-income uninsured Americans to buy insurers' skimpy products - insurance policies full of gaps like ever-rising co-pays, deductibles and premiums. Such policies already leave middle-class American families vulnerable to economic hardship and medical bankruptcy in the event of a serious illness like cancer,' continued Young, citing a recent study.

" 'Even so, at least 23 million people would remain uninsured,' he said. 'We know that being uninsured raises your chance of dying by about 40 percent,' he continued, citing another recent study. 'That translates into about 23,000 unnecessary deaths each year. As physicians, we find this completely unacceptable.' "