George Takei for the win

[soothsayer]

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George Takei
@GeorgeTakei
Vaccines, delivered free and to everyone, are a good example of how universal health care could work if we had the will and the heart to enact it.

[Xavier Breath]

1. K & R.

[Goonch]

2. Here's a novel delivery method for the Anti-Vaxxers

[sorcrow]

7. Nice

And it provides for social distancing as well.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

[tiptonic]

18. Wow

Wow great idea.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. We have the will and heart

Problem is republicans are psychopaths and have no heart and their will is directed at harming and abusing other people.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. well said

[Fritz Walter]

15. And let's not forget the health insurance lobby

They are petrified that their obscene profit margins would disappear. No to mention the value of their stocks.

Before I was eligible for Medicare a couple years ago, I had to take on a part-time job just to pay the outrageous monthly premiums for shitty coverage (enormous co-pays, limited provider network (in an HMO, doncha’ know)).

[niyad]

4. KNR

[Mad Kirrua]

5. Oh, My!

[BobTheSubgenius]

8. You bet, George!

I can't tell you how big a booster of universal health care I am. It keeps me in Canada, when I might otherwise move, at least part time, to WNY.

[murielm99]

13. My daughter lives in Toronto.

The vaccine situation there has been poor. Trudeau offered to send the Red Cross to Ontario to help with vaccine administration. Ford turned him down.

My daughter thought she would not be eligible to sign up until this summer. Not even to get on a list!

She is getting her first does this evening. Her husband, who is a year younger than her, has not been able to sign up yet. He will, as soon as he can.

From what she tells me, we are doing better here than in Canada.

[BlueBassLines]

9. The only reason the vaccines have been free

is because the lines on the economic "graphs are low and we can't have that".

[Passenger]

10. Loved him in the old days ...

... love him even more these days.

A real hero.

[UpInArms]

11. Welcome to DU!

[dsc]

12. He has some point but I will say that we are in the top three for vaccines with our for profit

system. Only Israel and the UK are comparable and by some metrics we are doing better than either of them. The great public systems of France, Germany and Scandanavia have been disasters in terms of vaccination. One big reason is we out bid the EU.

[Wounded Bear]

14. With heavy gov't subsidies and incentives...

[tiptonic]

16. So True

If only we could break up big pharma, the insurance companies, for profit health care and the campaign 'contributions', for politicians. We can only dream, I guess.

[soothsayer]

17. Maybe a lightbulb will go on