Marianne S ~~ Sorry I misconceived your whereabouts; but my responses re my dissatisfactions with the US system remain, + my view of why they are in general happy with it, and why we are happy in general with ours [whatever fatuous arguments Herr Schatzy deploys to demonstrate that polls are not to be trusted ~~ just suppose the result had been the opposite, do you imagine he would have been so dismissive?] ~ because people tend to be content with what they have provided it is in general functioning with reasonable efficiency, and recognise the unwisdom of the upsetting of apple-carts. Babies vanish with bathwater. A fine mixed metaphor, I flatter myself; but 'twill serve.

~M~