"Would this therapy be affordable for all, or for like many other medical breakthroughs would only the rich be able to afford it? Which brings us back to reason number 2,360 to support universal healthcare."

Extremely well said. Yes, this is yet another reason among so many to support national health care. Universal is not good enough. We need to get the profit incentive out of our care.

I, for one, want to be able to get this if, AND ONLY IF, I really need it. With our present system, I'd likely get this if I can afford it and if my doctor could make a good case why s/he thinks I need it, even if the real reason is just to make the doctor and hospital rich.

(See C-sections for one example of this. Consider that we are now breeding a race of humans that can no longer give birth vaginally because infant heads are getting too big with the dramatic reduction of the selective pressure against larger heads. The reason for all the C-sections? The real reason? Doctors make more.)

We don't need this expensive heart procedures. People do not change their lifestyle. The money can be better spent elsewhere, such as prenatal care. A new physical heart is not important. People need a new heart full of compassion and feeling.

Mr. Scott, C sections are only for the White women(you are right about that race). Mexican women in America have no trouble getting pregnant and giving birth the natural way that is why we give birth to half of all the new babies in America and soon it will be 66%. I have 5 and working on another one, all the natural way.

Maria,

I disagree that this is a race thing. This is probably a socio-economic-status thing instead. When I said race, I meant a new race, not one of the existing ones. I meant a race of people who are too big-headed at birth for the mother to give birth other than by C-section. I did not mean to imply any racism or any link to any pre-existing race of humans on the planet.

Mr. Scott, your fast talk doesn't fool me. You know that the White race is on its way out,but for the rest of us beautiful Brown, Black and chocolate people,we will out produce you. Just accept your demise.

I'm both surprised and disappointed by the level of racism and bigotry I'm seeing on MoJo these days.

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Maria,

I do accept my demise. I think you need to accept yours as well. The human species is incredibly likely to go extinct within the next couple of hundred years or so. There is not much time left. Breeding like rabbits will be one of the main reasons. Burning fossils fuels will be another.

Humans went through a bottle neck just 70-80,000 years ago where there were just 3-7,000 people on the planet. This means that there is very little genetic diversity in our species. There is no Us and Them. There is only Us. And, we are doomed if we don't realize it.

We're all in this together. We don't have much time to solve our very real issues.
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Mr. Scott, "breeding like rabbits" is what the White racists say about us Mexicans. That's OK Mr. Scott, have your fund before you kind goes in the waste bin of history.

Maria Racist,

Breeding like rabbits is what I say about humans as a whole. I do not specify any particular race. If you want to make racist statements, that sucks. But, whatever you do, stop trying to put racist words in my mouth. My position is clear. We are all us. We ALL need to stop breeding like rabbits.

Misanthropic, it is a racist statement to say "stop breeding like rabbits" because minorities have more children than EuroAmericans. May be you don't mean to be a racist, but you come across as one, just like the Clintons.

ATLANTA (AP) - Bucking the trend in many other wealthy industrialized nations, the United States seems to be experiencing a baby boomlet, reporting the largest number of children born in 45 years. The nearly 4.3 million births in 2006 were mostly due to a bigger population, especially a growing number of Hispanics. Hispanics as a group have higher fertility rates—about 40 percent higher than the U.S. overall

Angel,

I word my posts pretty carefully. Please do not infer that which I do not imply. In fact, please do not infer that which I explicitly state that I do not mean.

I simply mean that homo sapiens, all homo sapiens, must take steps to reduce human population. I do not care whether this is religious fanatics attempting to make god happy. I do not care whether the progeny are black, white, brown, green or purple.

The planet simply cannot support the numbers we have now. If we do not reduce our numbers, they will be reduced for us ... and with great pain and suffering. This is not about race, unless we are talking about the human race.

In fact, increase or decrease in population has a lot more to do with whether the nation in question is developed or developing, rather than the race of the people in the nation. It's hard, for example, to consider India a minority when they are 1/6th of the world's population.

So, Angel, I suspect that it is you and Maria projecting your own racism on me. Please stop doing that.

BTW, just as an aside, note that the U.S. is the only developed nation whose population is still increasing. Perhaps this, like health care, religiosity, and violent crime is just one more indicator that the U.S. really isn't a developed nation.

Maria, you can learn from us Chinese, one child per couple. We Chinese are very advanced in this area because we understand the problems of over population. You listen to Scott and practice what he preach.