health care, not health insurance
Today President Bush, in a speech to the National Governors Association, told us once again that “one of the biggest needs is to make sure private health insurance is available to a lot of folks in our country.”
It’s time for politicians to recognize what many citizen-viewers already do: that private health insurance is not part of the solution, it’s part of the problem. A big part of the problem.
What we need is not universal private health insurance, but universal access to health care. Not insurance policies and claims adjusters, but the right to be treated by a doctor of our own choice, and to have the appropriate health care paid for by a national or state-based fund, paid by our tax dollars.
Isn’t this obvious already?
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