Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom.
Oscar Arias Sanchez, excerpted from his 1987 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
Millions of people, both insured and uninsured are looking for hope in correcting many of the ills of our present state of healthcare…..
When it comes to healthcare, many no longer have hope without reform. And a good many of those, don’t know it and are against it…
Remember if you have insurance , it can be taken away before the day is out and you wont even know for a while.
Tomorrow you could have an auto accident be seriously and permanently damaged, with no one’s insurance to cover it.
You could come down with a serious illness that would cause your company to cancel the coverage or would cost more than the lifetime limits of the policy.
Please remember, we are all in this together, but we will suffer separately under this system..
If we don’t fix it, everybody will find a day when they are faced with living or dyeing for the stupidest reason if we don’t start re-doing this system now.
Most people who have coverage are just one minor incident from being without…
If your not for reform, then what are your plans for the future if things stay like they are?.
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Comments: 59
Why won't Obama "the Uniter" even discuss any free-market solutions (of which there are many)?
I think you might be surprised. The question is, when it is revealed that you were wrong about Obama, will you admit it?
The most I can hope for concerning health care reform is that it will work, and kick in for those in the near future. It's going to take a few years, from what I understand, before this reform (in what form it may take) will actually begin to show real change. It's not going to be instantaneous if it passes.
If we don't get health care reform, I will continue to hope. Hope that I live to reach the age of 65 so I can apply for Medicare. Hope that I won't be too broken to fix by then.
But then in 20 years, I'll have Medicare and won't have to give a hoot about my fellow citizens, will I? And if my daughter is still without, well, won't that be too bad because she's got bootstraps.
(I know, I sound like a freaking cheerleader. HA!)
dexter....you rock!!
em jay....you make a great cheerleader!! :)
I wish my American friends good luck in persuading others that universal healthcare is the only way forward for a civilised society.
I did put a link to the blog of an American woman who lived in the UK for 15 or so years - and she gives her personal views, having seen both systems from the 'inside', so to speak. Very revealing.
As I consistently state, our system is NOT perfect, it has flaws which most sane British people acknowledge. BUT, we are all covered for ALL illnesses.
I've never advocated that the USA slavishly copy our system - but that the richest nation on earth has millions of its citizens unable to afford health care or they are bankrupted by long-term illnesses? How can that be right?
I agree a lot about the not giving a damn.. that could be a whole series of articles, on here.
What I got from the story is that the NHS underwent a major overhaul ten or so years ago and since then has been pretty darned popular. I did enjoy the bit with the surgeon who called a lot of the claims US politicians are making about the NHS "lies." He didn't say they were mistaken. He said that they were willfully not telling the truth.
In my local paper there were two letters to the editor this AM from Brits living in the Bay Area who were not pleased with the veracity of comments US politicians have made about the NHS. The letters had a very civil tone but it was easy to see that the authors had had to work very hard to maintain it.
Interview with surgeon audio
transcript