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In reply to the discussion: Biden and Pope Francis team up against cancer [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)It isn't that I am so bitter. It's that I want homeless drug addicts and people who can't afford the huge deductibles on the bronze plans, etc. to have good healthcare access, the kind of access I had when I lived in Europe. And I lived in four different European countries, none of which had our huge military, all of which had good, affordable healthcare access for every single citizen -- even inveterate alcoholics and the poorest of the poor.
We can do this. It's great to work for a cure for cancer. I'm at an age at which I am watching my friends recover from cancers that were death sentences just a few years ago. But I want access to that kind of healthcare for all my friends, not just the upper middle class and wealthy ones.
Biden could do a lot to push the cause of universal, single payer, non-profit health insurance while he is pushing for cures for cancer. (It won't be just one cure for all cancers.)
Let's keep our eye on the real ball which is the fact that the poor do not live as long as the rich because of the difference in the access to healthcare. A poor child loves his parents just as much as a rich one does, and vice-versa.