Reply #8: It's the how and what of Healthcare

[Donna Zen]

First you identify where you want to go: what do you want? Yes, Clark believes: "For some this means only providing a framework of opportunities - for others it means more direct assistance in areas such as education, health care, and retirement security." and "promoting physical vigor and good health through public health measures, improved diagnostics, preventive health, and continuing health care to extend longevity and productivity to our natural limits; and strengthening retirement security, simply because it is right; first for our society to assure that all its members who have contributed throughout their lifetimes are assured a minimal standard of living, and secondly to free the American worker and family to concentrate on the challenges of today. Such long term challenges must be addressed right away, with a new urgency. " IOW, we all need healthcare and we need it now.

Second you find the best means for achieving that goal. How do we get where we want to go? For starters we need dollars. Clark suggests: finding the money for Healthcare in the "want machine," the Pentagon budget.

The biggest surprise for me yesterday was that while everyone looked for clarification about his IWR stance, no one mentioned this unbelievable statement which blew me out of my seat. Actually, I would have been equally surprised to find many posters in the Clark threads to want to look at any positives that might undermine their set-in-stone biases.