U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citi

[rodeodance]

How Do We Cure a Sick Health Care System?

By Terrence McNally, AlterNet. Posted September 4, 2007.

Johnathan Cohn, author of SICK, discusses why the U.S. is the only developed country that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship.

http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/61115/

..........The United States is the only country in the developed world that does not guarantee access to medical care as a right of citizenship. As outrageous as that fact is, why is it so? What does it mean in the lives of individual Americans and their families? And what can we do about it?

Like Michael Moore's critically and commercially successful documentary, SiCKO, Jonathan Cohn's new book, SICK probes the larger problems by focusing on the stories of individuals -- most of them working members of the middle class -- who are cruelly let down by our failing system.

Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic, where he has been since 1997. Prior to that, Jonathan worked for six years at The American Prospect, where he remains a contributing editor. A senior fellow at Demos, Cohn has also written for many other publications, and is the author of SICK: The Untold Story Of America's Health Care Crisis -- And The People Who Pay The Price.

Terrence McNally: How did you grow to focus as much as you do on health care?....

[ananda]

1. That's what happens when your country..

.. is run by corporate thugs and criminals.

[redqueen]

2. Wish we'd elect someone who wants to change it, not tweak it. n/t

[antigop]

3. Hey, let's exacerbate the problem by voting for corporatist presidential candidates. n/t

[Briar]

8. Or what happens when

a doctrine of deserving and undeserving, saved and lost, good and evil, blessed (and financially rewarded) or cursed (and poor) dominates the national self image.

It isn't just corporate greed. It's a willingness to think in terms of "us" and "them", of the elect and the damned.

[rjones2818]

4. HR 676...

Waiting in the wings for your support!

:woohoo:

[antigop]

5. Hillary has said her universal health care plan would not involve a single-payer government system.

http://www.miamiherald.com/692/story/212966.html

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Speaking later in Manchester, Clinton said her universal health care plan would not involve a single-payer government system.
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That is, if she ever releases a health care plan.

[tom_paine]

6. Fair enough, which is why the U.S. is no more, but Imperial Amerika is a 3rd World Nation

and, as such, it's system of medical care resembles it's fellow Third World Nations rather the the Free World.

Yes Amerika is a rich nation, but like most 3rd World tyrannies, that wealth seldom benefits the bottom 90%.

Yes, I know the transition from what we were to what we evil we are becoming isn't fully complete yet, so forgive me for jumping the gun on an obviously irreverisble trend.

[indepat]

7. Further concentration of wealth among a relative precious few is and has been the 'pukes job #1:

proof is in the pudding the 'pukes' have cooked for us, especially their fiscal and tax policies and opposition to universal health care.

[sarcasmo]

9. Kick, we are not even close the greatest Country in the World.