Kucinich on Universal Healthcare
Unlike Hillary, who is in the pocket of big pharma and mega insurance companies, the rest of the Democrats who aren’t much different, and the Republicans, who profess to care about the lives of the unborn but wouldn’t bother stepping over a dying kid in the street, Kucinich makes sense on health care. A not-for-profit health care system. Watch his ABC interview. Sicko is a pretty good start to making a comparative analysis of health care in various countries. Don’t like Michael Moore? Talk to a Canadian and ask them what they think of our health care disaster.
Here’s the funny thing- I’ll probably never have to worry about health insurance. I’m white, have an excellent education, a 401k, live in household with two incomes and no kids, and have a pretty good resume. Perhaps I should, like the Republicans I know, worry about taxes more than I worry about things like health care for others, the environment, and a sustainable economy. But I don’t. I’d rather we were all better off than just me being better off. Dennis Kucinich obviously feels that way, too.
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November 18th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
My wife and I attend a Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, mainly because we agree with the point you make at the end of this post. At today’s service, the main talk was given by a physician from Lawrence, Kansas, who is a member of several organizations pushing for a national health care system. Most of his talk just reinforced what I already knew, but toward the end, he had a slide that made a simple, but powerful, point. Among industrialized nations to which we typically compare ourselves (i.e.- Europe, Japan, etc.), all of them, every last one of them, have a national health care system offering universal coverage. Not one nation with a national health care system has ever reverted back to a private system such as ours. How on earth could we be right and all of them be wrong?
November 18th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
Your blog keeps eating my pithy comments. I’m even getting the math problems right, I’m sure of it!