Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Meanness

"When we Europeans – the British included – contemplate the battles President Obama must fight to reform the US health system, our first response tends to be disbelief. How can it be that so obvious a social good as universal health insurance, so humane a solution to common vulnerability, is not sewn deep into the fabric of the United States? How can one of the biggest, richest and most advanced countries in the world tolerate a situation where, at any one time, one in six of the population has to pay for their treatment item by item, or resort to hospital casualty wards?"

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mary-dejevsky/mary--dejevsky-a-mean-streak-in-the-us-mainstream-1776795.html
(another one from Sherman's Blog, http://global-equality.org/news/blog/)

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