“Yes, We Can All Be Insured”
by Jane Bryant QuinnNewsweek, July 30, 2007
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Editor’s note: I’m just now reading last week’s Newsweek, and saw this column by Jane Bryant Quinn. She exposes the fear-mongering myths about universal healthcare. And she’s not exactly known for being a radical socialist, either. Click on link to see entire story.
“Prepare to be terrorized, shocked, scared out of your wits. No, not by jihadists or Dementors (you do read “Harry Potter,” right?), but by the evil threat of … universal health insurance! The more the presidential candidates talk it up, the wilder the warnings against it. Cover everyone? Wreck America? Do you know what care would cost? …
… I do agree that we can’t afford to cover everyone under the crazy health-care system we have now. We can’t even afford all the people we’re covering already, which is why we keep booting them out. But we have an excellent template for universal care right under our noses: good old American Medicare. When you think of reform, think ‘Medicare for all.’ …”
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August 3rd, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Why is it that those who like to talk about rationing health care always talk in terms of who or which illnesses will or won’t be “insured” or “covered?” This is an attempt to deflect the real health care decisions onto so-called faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats in the private and lucrative insurance companies.
It would have been much more credible for Ms. Bryant Quinn to speak not in terms of the insurance industry, but rather in terms of actual health care delivered to actual Americans. We don’t need insurance. What good has insurance, by itself, ever done for anybody except the insurance companies?
Ms. Bryant Quinn, speak to me not of insurance. Speak, instead, of the illnesses that will or won’t be relieved, and of the lives that will or won’t be saved. I prefer listen to those who take responsibility for their positions even when those positions might have a life-threatening affect on their own sons and daughters who may not have the good fortune of being in your apparently high economic class.