Ruth Archer, as you actually mentioned me in your post I thought I might respond to you directly and in reverse order of your comments.

1- I am sorry you and your mother had medical problems; I'm glad you got great care, and just a scare. I hope your mother has had a good recovery, too; you didn't say. BTW, I was not referring to UK.

2- If CarolC did not mean that foreign aid keeps the US from having a good medical care system, then she shouldn't have conflated the two in the first place.

3- I don't approve of folks "deliberately misinterpreting her views" or anybody else's views, however, she has been the queen of that tactic over the years, even unto this thread. I have many times called her on the use of twisting comments and/or deliberate misinterpretation of my comments, even unto this thread. I invite you to do the research.

4- David Brog does not head Christian Zionists (which is like saying he heads Democrats or some other maxi-group). He heads a specific CZ organization, Christians United for Israel, which group claims to not share the more apocalyptic interpretation of Jew/Christian relations as other such groups. He claims he is a normative Jew. Until I learn differently, I will (warily) give him and them the benefit of the doubt.