Rogert Ebert on "death panels"

[ellid]

The last paragraph is a gut punch. Really.</a?

Comments

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I'm continually amazed that people who would benefit from the program are opposing it based on lies propogated by the Republicans.

Ebert is spot on about people opposing it just because it's Obama who's supporting it.

[prince-hring.livejournal.com]

Y'know... if the USofA ran its fire departments like it ran its health care, the firemen would demand payment up front before putting out the fire.

In the USofA,

• fire fighting is socialized;
  
• policing is socialized;
  
• grade school is socialized;
  
• high school is socialized; and
  
• national defense is socialized.
  

Why (in the name of whatever one may hold sacred) does the public react so badly to the noting of health care being socialized?

[ellid.livejournal.com]

First, not all the public is reacting badly to the idea of public health care. The so-called "grassroots protesters" have been stirred up by right-wing agitators like Rush Limbaugh.

Second, the insurance companies have a great deal of money and are willing to throw it behind a last, desperate push to curtail their obscene profits.

Third, people are being lied to. Pure and simple. Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Ross Douthat, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michael Savage, Chuck Grassley, and all the screamers at Red State, Free Republic, Little Green Footballs, and World Net Daily, are lying. They are lying for money, because they hate Obama, and because they're terrified of a world that doesn't conform to the Frank Capra/Leave it to Beaver fantasies of an America populated by hardy, self-reliant middle class white men who go to work every day and never ask for a handout, their thrifty, sassy, but ultimately deferential wives, and 3.2 blond, well-scrubbed children in Levittown.

It's a charming fantasy for a lot of elderly and middle aged white people, and they want "their America back." Too bad that it never existed the way they thought it did, and never will again.

[varianor.livejournal.com]

Very interesting article. Thank you for posting it. Yes, I like the idea that every American should have the same health coverage as our senators and congressmen.