Paul Krugman- Zombies Against Medicare

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4. Hear! Hear!

From your keyboard to reality please!

The idea that of all advanced economies the Unites States alone cannot figure out how to handle health care rights is astounding.

Its time to stop couching the debate in terms that the plutocrats and fascists like, you know "makers" and "takers" and "entitlements"...BULLSHIT!

Health Care is a RIGHT as a citizen of this country.
No citizen of the country should EVER be forced into bankruptcy by illness.
No citizen of the country should EVER be forced into for their life because treatment options are "too expensive"...

Health Care Rights may not be as sexy as other causes, the ones that get people's ire raised and shouting at each other despite common cause, but make no mistake, without Health Care Rights other issues will continue to fester and rot.

Racial justice without economic justice without equal (or ANY) opportunity without health care rights is simply sticking band aids on gunshots. The middle class - in concept, in reality and in opportunity - has been eviscerated, sacrificed in the name of corporate profits and a business model of capitalism run amok. Just as millions of minorities, and millions more Caucasians, know all too well, if you are dead from a treatable disease, that is far worse than dead broke, and worse than persecuted dead broke.

Health Care is not a profit center. Health Care is a RIGHT (it cannot be said enough).
It never should have been "for profit" insurance, and those in the insurance business who insert themselves between doctors and patients and treatments as a middle-man skimming off the top, would be tried for crimes against humanity if ever a full and honest accounting of their depravity was produced.

Health Care is a RIGHT!