Nick Bennett

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  Nick commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Top Five Health Care Lies -- and How to Fight Back

  Of course healthcare is a right - it's just that the US doesn't know it yet.

  
  

  Education used to be a privilege, open only to those with money to afford the education (i.e insurance premiums).  Now education is not only a right, it is the legal OBLIGATION of a child's guardian, be it the State or their Parent, to provide it.  Healthcare will go the same way as US society advances out of the dark ages (e.g. having religion dictate foreign policy such as AIDS funding in Africa, which happened under Bush's regime - something the Founding Fathers would not have approved of, as I understand 'the separation of church and state' to mean.)

  
  

  It is just a simple fact that regardless of how well the US perceives itself, it is still behind-the-times on a number of issues, and healthcare is one of those issues.

  
  

  I'm a doctor currently working/training in the US...but who went to medical school in the UK - a place a full 19 points higher in the WHO rankings despite spending half as much per citizen...  I think the US has a heck of lot going for it, but you can't blow smoke up my ass and tell me it has 'the best gord-darn healthcare system in the world!'  It's terribly broken, and Obama has put a reasonable start on the table to fix it.

  
  

  The POTUS is all too often a political figurehead, simply the mouthpiece to special interest groups or unelected officials - Obama is someone whom the world is actually better off having in a position of power.  He outlined all of his ideas in his books before even running for POTUS, so none of this is exactly new.

  
  

  Of course I may be biased because his stimulus package is currently keeping me and my family in our house with the tax breaks and unemployment assistance...and maybe one day I'll actually earn enough to be eligible to pay any additional taxes to help those who, like me right now, need a little extra help.