The Public Healthcare Option

[browngirl]

I haven't discussed politics here much lately. But I realized that I needed to write this down for my own sense of honor if for no other reason, as a reminder to spend some time working towards what I believe is right. From thnidu: No one should die because they cannot afford health care. No one should go broke because they get sick, and no one should be tied to a job because of a pre-existing condition. [If you agree, please post this to your journal.]

From tigerbright: Here is a link to a video by Robert Reich (Labor Secretary for Clinton, currently a professor at UC-Berkeley) that explains some of the current controversy.

In the interests of evenhandedness, here is madfilkentist's countermeme. If this post of mine has annoyed you so far, this link is the one you may agree with.

For myself, I did add brackets around the last line of the meme I posted because I dislike coercively worded memes. However, I agreed with the rest, so I have posted it. I'm leaving comments on, though I probably shouldn't, but I don't think I can be convinced that there is no problem with over 45 million Americans lacking health insurance, and my statement of that is intended as information, not a dare.

Comments

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

When public healthcare is referred to as an "option", that in itself depresses me as indicative of how far to the right of centre the space of debate has shifted.

So, so true. Whenever I hear President Obama called "socialist" or "far-left" it makes me snort, snarl, or both; the US as a whole has gotten so right-wing that he's quite far right just to be centrist here (and has to lean further rightwards because of the trends in power).

(And, well, let me just say I do not disagree with you on the countermeme, and leave it at that.)