A public option
| By User from Sterling, VA - Sep 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm EDT |
I am no liberal, I am not in the middle, nor am I a conservative.
I am an American with the ability to think rationally and analyze effectively just like everyone else on either side of this debate.
Unfortunately for all of us we, as people, tend to let our emotions slow down our ability to think rationally and remain calm when our "buttons are pushed".
What I am hoping to achieve with this blog is an open, honest dialogue about our health care system.
Let me start with these question and we'll go from there:
1) Why do you think we are the ONLY industrialized nation on the planet that does not have a national health care system?
2) Why do you think that we have the highest infant mortality rate and the lowest life expectancy of ANY industrialized nation?
Please state your opinions with respect and civility. Thanks
I am an American with the ability to think rationally and analyze effectively just like everyone else on either side of this debate.
Unfortunately for all of us we, as people, tend to let our emotions slow down our ability to think rationally and remain calm when our "buttons are pushed".
What I am hoping to achieve with this blog is an open, honest dialogue about our health care system.
Let me start with these question and we'll go from there:
1) Why do you think we are the ONLY industrialized nation on the planet that does not have a national health care system?
2) Why do you think that we have the highest infant mortality rate and the lowest life expectancy of ANY industrialized nation?
Please state your opinions with respect and civility. Thanks
"The health-care sector has long ranked with financial services and energy interests as one of the most powerful political forces in Washington, and it spent nearly $1 billion on lobbying in the past two years alone. As momentum moves toward overhauling health care, major medical groups have stepped up their lobbying and campaign activities while shifting money and attention to newly empowered Democrats, according to federal records and industry experts."
"...virtue has never been as respectable as money."
Mark Twain- Innocents Abroad
Washington Post
Link
2) Why do you think that we have the highest infant mortality rate and the lowest life expectancy of ANY industrialized nation?
Because we are the greatest country in the world and we CAN'T believe otherwise.
"We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves."
- Harper's Magazine, "Unpublished Chapters from the Autobiography of Mark Twain," August 1922