Molly Ivins on Universal Health Care

[TexasTowelie]

by Molly Ivins
August 5, 1994


It wouldn’t be so bad if health care reform failed this year, if we could only think that the debate about it had been as serious as the problems. I figure that’s why Hillary Rodham Clinton is so intense about it—she went around the country having all those meetings listening to people whose lives have been hopelessly botched by the current system, or non-system, so she knows what the stakes are for average people.

But in Washington, deep thinking on health care reform comes in forms like Senator Bob Dole’s statement: “I’ve got a party to worry about.”

In Washington, you hear blithe statements like, “Oh, a lot of people who don’t have health insurance are in their 20s. They’re young and healthy, they don’t need insurance and they don’t want to spend the money.” Ever talk to a 23-year-old with no insurance who’s been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis? That’s just one of the diseases that tends to show up when people are in their 20s.

The other day at the Southern Legislators Conference, as I was attempting to point out that Canada has a sane, effective and cheap system of national health insurance, I was told: “Canada practices low-tech medicine. Why, in Thunder Bay, women have to have babies with no anesthetic.” Right there in Norfolk, Virginia, I thought I heard the sound of several million Canadians politely choking. (Canadians are almost always polite.)

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. Well,

that little cut from history shows that at least the Repugs are consistent in their stupidity!

[Scarsdale]

2. Bob Dole spent

6 weeks at Walter Reed medical facility a few years back. He is a multi millionaire. Imagine if one of us spent 6 weeks in a hospital? Bankruptcy would be the next step, plus loads of medical bills, and hounding from debt collectors. Dole is one of the original scammers in the gop. He would get voting records from Kansas where he ran, and destroy anyone who voted against him. One man was jailed when his records were "lost" each time he was up for parole. Tom Delay was one of Dole's students in dirty dealings. Dole is a vile excuse for a human being. I am amazed the gop did not do for him what they have done for tRump, helped him get into the WH. Read the book about Dole "Senator for Sale" It is an eyeopener, since the methods he used are now being used by McConnell and others.