I didn't know Democratic Underground comes up on google news!

[Peace Candidate]

and it is really good too-Bravo Time For Change!!
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/259

Thus, any rise in taxes to pay for a government sponsored health care system will be more than compensated for by the money that people will save by not having to pay out-of-pocket expenditures for health care.

Another objection we often hear from the right wing ideologues is that government provided health care is “socialized medicine”. Spreading the fear of “socialized” anything is always good for fighting the passage of programs that benefit ordinary people, such as Medicare or Social Security, or any of the multitude of New Deal programs that FDR used to lift so many people out of poverty.

But hey. If Congress dislikes “socialized medicine” so much, why do all of our Congresspersons receive it?


Closing comments

Though the United States spends 53% more per capita on health care than the next highest country, its health care is ranked only 37th among the world’s nations by the World Health Organization. That is just plain sick, and signifies an urgent need for radical changes in our health care system, especially with regard to improving access to care.

Dennis Kucinich, alone among 2008 presidential candidates, has drawn up plans for a single payer universal health system. There is no reason at all why we shouldn’t adopt such a system – except that our corporate media will be sure to parrot right wing talking points if it looks like it might be enacted into law. Although John Edwards’ health care plan doesn’t go as far as Kucinich’s towards eliminating unnecessary corporate for-profit components from our health care system, he does propose a universal health care plan, along with a surefire way to get Congress to pass it: If Congress refuses to enact a health care plan that will ensure universal access to health care for the American people, he promises to take away their federally funded health care program from them.