Excerpts from Clint Reilly's article: The Cure
 
     Nationalize bankrupt banks? Hell, let's nationalize our bankrupt health care system. We are the sole industrialized nation without health coverage?  How does that make sense while American taxpayers are bailing out the financial system, the auto industry, and are being called upon to rescue free market capitalism from the abyss?

     Our employer-based health care model is as bankrupt as Detroit's auto industry - which ironically was laid low by skyrocketing health insurance premiums.

     A patented attack on "Socialized Medicine" has been the insurance industry's nuclear weapon in the long war to resist universal health care.  For two decades, they have argued that the same industry that spawned AIG (which required a $150 Billion taxpayer bailout) is better equiped to manage health care than the U.S. Government?

     The World Health Organization ranks France's health care system the best in the world.  The United States is rated an embarrassing 37th!

     Have you grown weary of the private sector's unanswered public relations war on government?  Is our Federal Government perfect? Oh course not.  But neither is it the corrupt and incompetent caricature portrayed in ads resisting oversight and regulations by utilities, banks, developers, insurance companies, and yes - Republicans.

     The demonization seems increasingly hypocritical afater these same corporate titans and their political allies have squandered so much of our national treasure.

     Who would you trust to manage America's health care?  Insurance companies like AIG or the people's government?

     The real question is: do you think access to health care is a right or a privilege?  Who could say to any person who was sick that health care is not a human right?  Only an Insurance Company (or a Republican).

For the whole article by Clint Reilly:  The Cure