I knew this would prompt some good feedback on Pajamas Media. When our blog first signed on to the PJM blog network we were a little scared by how right wing so many of the blogs and articles are. I’m glad that we’ve gotten some debate going.
As far as these comments, I am an American citizen so I can not speak about any experiences I’ve had with foreign healthcare. That being said, I can look up World Health Care Rankings (http://www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html) and I can look up what countries’ citizens live the longest. No one can make the argument that our system is the best. Besides that, what more can we judge a healthcare system on other than how long people live and how healthy those lives are?
America is the fattest country in the world with the 37th ranked health care system. We are the richest country in the world yet 50 million people in this country don’t have health insurance. Is it not wrong to be making money off of sick people? You folks on the right talk about being Pro-Life, well act like it! Healthcare should be a human right. No one should have to go into debt because they’re sick.
Finally, as far as raising taxes go: stop spending money fighting wars against countries that never attacked us and we won’t have to raise taxes; just change where the money goes.
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