Candidate Obama declared Healthcare to be a right and not a privilege

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

From the Nation:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081020/obamahealth_video
Obama: Healthcare Should Be a Right
By CNN
October 8, 2008
During the Presidential debate last night Barack Obama firmly communicated why he thinks healthcare is not a privilege but a right
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"We have a moral commitment," he said, "in addition to an economic imperative, to do something."

I agree with him. What has changed? Nothing.

I call on him to lead the fight for REAL reform and renounce the insurance industry that is doing everything in its power to derail ANY reform and curtail a basic human right to healthcare, as he himself defined it.

What kind of a country lets one parasitic industry kill and bankrupt their citizens in order to preserve their profits as middlemen who add NO VALUE to healthcare? Have we no shame?

Let's scrap everything but House Bill 676 since the Insurers have admitted in their own study that they cannot be negotiated with and are not willing to reduce their crippling costs.

[joeycola]

1. Of course 676 should be given a fair hearing instead

of kicking it under the table.

[slipslidingaway]

2. knr nt

[Orsino]

3. "A moral commitment to do something" is too vague.

If there truly is a moral imperative, we must do better than a half-assed public option.