We Need Single Payer (Update) 0
Punishing the victim:
This is beyond evil. Someone else beats you up, then the hospital bills force you into bankruptcy.
Health care is not just an economic or medical issue, though a rational health care system would save lots of money.
(The United States spends more than any other industrialized country on health care.)
It is also a moral one.
We are no longer in a day when we can go into the woods (how many of you live near woods?), gather up roots and herbs, and boil up a cure on the campfire, and a society has an obligation to take care of its ill and destitute.
Only the cold-hearted can fail to see this.
Addendum:
Melissa McEwan comments in the Guardian:
The Democrats – specifically Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington state, who also led the opposition with then-Senator Hillary Clinton to the Bush-administration proposed HHS rule change that fundamentally undermined women’s healthcare – introduced legislation known as the Safe Act in 2006, which would have put an end to insurance company discrimination against survivors of domestic violence.
The then-Republican controlled Senate health, education, labour and pensions committee blocked the legislation on a party-line vote. Massive donations. Giving the finger. Rinse. Repeat.
