Time magazine nails the health care debate
A great piece which really explains the issue, how backward we have become in this area and what the stakes are. They report:
Rarely have I seen such excellent reporting in the mainstream press. The fact that this article appeared in its issue dated March 11, 1970 should not diminish our gratitude to Time for its excellent coverage of this problem.
While every American may be entitled to at least adequate health care, he is not getting it, and will not, until a momentous national debate reaches election-year levels of acrimony and is somehow resolved.
... Apart from such standpatters ... and its arch-conservative Republican allies, there is a growing consensus that some national insurance blanket must be thrown over the ailing body of health care.
Rarely have I seen such excellent reporting in the mainstream press. The fact that this article appeared in its issue dated March 11, 1970 should not diminish our gratitude to Time for its excellent coverage of this problem.
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Yet another example of the utter futility of my nearly 40 years of voting. Hard to be progressive when you have to go back 40 years to find a baseline.
October 27, 2009 6:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
But, you know, this is why we fight.
October 27, 2009 10:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
wonderful find!!! 1970. Incredible.
October 27, 2009 11:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
The article is incredible. The find, though, was based on something in Senator Kennedy's book, which I am currently reading.
October 28, 2009 4:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
The only way we're gonna see any real health care reform will be when those ultra-conservative republicans steps in it and the rake handle smacks them right between the eyes. Until then, they'll use every means at their disposal to thwart, hinder and dismantle all our efforts. They have to suffer the consequences of letting the free markets run health care into the ground first before they'll come onboard. Once onboard, they complain the cost of correcting the problem is too high and more government waste needs to be trimmed to keep from raising taxes. It's a losing battle.
October 27, 2009 11:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fact.
The cost to fix a fuckup is always way more than if you had done the job correctly the first time through. And the more serious the fuckup the more it will cost to correct. This is not a NEW RULE.
October 28, 2009 6:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
The man who owned this pharmacy before I bought it had this sign hanging in it when I started working for him over 20 years ago. I may be wrong... but I can't remember a time this sign wasn't hanging.
"If we were all men of Goodwill, which we are not, and if we could agree on how it should be done, which we can't, and if we had the money, which we don't, it would still take 10 years."
-Former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D., on prospects for reforming the health care system.
(Year unknown)
October 28, 2009 2:04 PM | Reply | Permalink