In my opinion, we need to get our shit together and pass a health care reform bill that has the public option. And lots of other stuff as well. Its the moral obligation of every government, to insure its citizens have access to decent affordable health care (I sound like a commercial, don´t I?) But its true.
Think about it: if, as some seem to think, like John Mackey, CEO from Whole Foods (please boycott Whole Foods) that its not everyone´s right to health care, only those who have the good luck to be able to afford it, then we are all screwed. You know why? Because a country cannot function, if a high percentage of the population is either sick, or too poor to afford to go the the doctors, or too ignorant to know to know what preventive measures to take to not actually get sick. No people to work, no products, no income, no spending, no people paying taxes, no nothing. So, anyone who tells you its not the government's responsibility, is full of shit.
This is not about government take-over, as some would have you believe. No, its about having health. And care. So that you are capable of making informed decisions.
TR Ried, an American journalist and author who has lived in various countries in the world, explains how other countries do it. France, Great Britain, Germany, Japan. In quite simple understandable terms.
And as Mr. Ried succinctly puts it - socialism (which is the new loaded word - you know - during the cold war, it was communism, now, in the dissolving brain era, its "socialism") is not a four letter word. Actually, Mr. Ried didn´t say it exactly like that. But I am.
Listen to his interview. Its great. Insightful. And puts things into perspective. We really need health care reform. We can do it.
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