http://www.perkersonpark.com/2009/05/public-funded-health-care-not-socialized-medicine.html Continuing conversations in the park begun in the autumn of 1969 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:22:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.perkersonpark.com/2009/05/public-funded-health-care-not-socialized-medicine.html/comment-page-1#comment-26 Kathleen Moore Sun, 24 May 2009 20:04:04 +0000 http://perkersonpark.com/2009/05/america-needs-health-care-now/#comment-26 The "hold up" is that universal health care is the right thing to do for us all. The insurance companies and prescription drug makes don't care what's the right thing for us all, they only care about what puts more money into their pockets. I don't know what it will take to break the strangehold that the big money interests have on the Congress, but I doubt that it will be broken anytime soon. I voted for President Obama, but I don't think he can pull this off in the face of all the oppposition he will have from the health care industry. The “hold up” is that universal health care is the right thing to do for us all. The insurance companies and prescription drug makes don’t care what’s the right thing for us all, they only care about what puts more money into their pockets. I don’t know what it will take to break the strangehold that the big money interests have on the Congress, but I doubt that it will be broken anytime soon. I voted for President Obama, but I don’t think he can pull this off in the face of all the oppposition he will have from the health care industry.

]]> http://www.perkersonpark.com/2009/05/public-funded-health-care-not-socialized-medicine.html/comment-page-1#comment-25 Thomas Blount Sat, 23 May 2009 18:34:27 +0000 http://perkersonpark.com/2009/05/america-needs-health-care-now/#comment-25 I wonder if we really are ever going to have universal health care. Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Richardson and every other Democrat who ran for the presidency promised it, but every time I hear health care reform mentioned the language moves farther and farther away from universal coverage. I'm afraid that this Congress will wind up passing some bill with minor perks that help a few people and advertise it as sweeping reform. I wonder if we really are ever going to have universal health care. Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Richardson and every other Democrat who ran for the presidency promised it, but every time I hear health care reform mentioned the language moves farther and farther away from universal coverage. I’m afraid that this Congress will wind up passing some bill with minor perks that help a few people and advertise it as sweeping reform.

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