Robert Reich is one of the leading scholars in the world. There is no better time to enact health care reform than today. It is a shame that politics would stand in the way of moving forward in getting our citizens access to affordable health insurance and medical care.
The Republicans passed two huge tax cuts under Bush using reconciliation and now more than ever that process is needed to bring this historic legistlation to fruition.
30 million uninsured people and 50,000 who die each from not having insurance
can't wait. When you have chest pains you call 911. When you have a critical national
emergency it calls for the same urgency.
If the GOP thinks its lies and distortions are going to make health care reform go away, they are sadly mistaken. The ones who vote against will be remembered and mark my words will be voted out of office.
All we have heard from the Republicans and their insurance industry sponsors
are complete fabrications and distortions. They should be ashamed of themselves.
They keep on bringing up tort reform and caps on malpractice suits. Their claim is that this is the major reason for the high cost of medicine. It is not. It accounts for less than
1% of the cost.