Quotes of the Day -- On Health Care

Universal health care is such a complex beast that only 32 of the world's 33 nations have been able to make it work.

--Duke @Maxonsdad 

If you think Covid treatment should be free (of course it should), why do you think insulin shouldn’t be? 

Or cancer treatment? 

Or mental health?

Health care should not be run for profit. Period.

--Robert Reich @RBReich

Meanwhile, Republicans are Coming After Your Health Insurance, America

This is what's going on today.  God and heavens help us, America. Republicans and the Right Wing are coming for your health insurance.

Trump’s justice department to argue for end of Obamacare at supreme court

The Affordable Care Act, which allows people to access preventive health services at no cost, will be brought before a conservative majority court

This is the Republican Party, ladies and gentlemen.  This is who they are. This is what they want. This is what they do. They're for, after all, corporations and corporate America and the already-wealthy. They're not for you and me. They're not for the middle class or poor.  

In the middle of the worst, most killing, deadly international pandemic in the last more than 100 years, the Republican Party is actually trying to kill Obamacare which will most surely end health insurance for hundreds of thousands of Americans, at the very least, if not millions.

They're doing this now. Right now. Today.

Pre-existing conditions?

Fuggedaboudit.

Thanks, Republicans!

US Healthcare System vs This Pandemic

 Can we not now, with this pandemic, recognize and admit that our for-profit health care system in the US is clearly hurting Americans? We are supposedly, reputedly the "wealthiest nation in the world" and have the "best health care system in the world" but, but it's not universal health care.

We are the only Western, industrialized nation IN THE WORLD without universal health care.

We are the only nation in the world that has citizens declaring bankruptcy due to health care costs.

The number one cause of bankruptcy in the nation is health care costs.

With all that, finally, and, again, this pandemic, we have MORE DEATHS from this pandemic than ANY OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD.

Can we not see a connection between this for-profit health care system and all these pandemic deaths?

Can't we?

And then, can we maybe do something about all this?

We are, after all, "exceptional."

Right?