Thank you for your comment. Yes, I would love for you to put a blogroll link back to my post. What is your blog so I can check it out?

Thank you for your comment. I agree that teachers should submit to random drug testing. I would go further and say anyone who works with children should submit to random drug testing (bus drivers, day care workers, coaches, etc.) However, I think that the teachers' unions would have a cow. The unions have somehow managed to make it next to impossible to fire ineffective teachers so I don't imagine they will take kindly to mandatory random drug testing. Afterall, the unions represent teachers and NOT students. Never once has a teachers' union recommended policy to improve teaching. Simply put, students don't pay into the union so why should they care? Teachers are not the sacred cow that they think they are. They are not above peeing into a cup.

Thank you for your comment. Neither party knows what to do because there aren't any easy answers on this. There is a balance that needs to be achieved. On the one hand, people here without insurance often receive substandard care if any at all. On the other hand, socialized medicine means long wait times which means treatable conditions could end up becoming untreatable. In England the long wait times mean that by the time a patient with treatable colon cancer receives treatement, 1 in 5 of them are no longer treatable.

I think what really cocncerns people is uninsured children. I couldn't imagine how scary it would be to be uninsured with a sick child. Fortunately we have Ronald McDonald House and St. Jude Children's Hospital among others who provide free services and treatment to children and their families.