[Occupymendocino] New Low in Health Care Rhetoric

[Richard Karch]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/272-39/21402-a-new-low-in-health-care-rhetoric

A New Low in Health Care Rhetoric
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
08 January 14
 
 thought we'd heard it all when Sarah Palin compared having to pay taxes for someone else's health care to slavery, but old friend and Ayn Rand devotee Megan McArdle may have one-upped her.

Like the legalization debate, which is meaningless to anyone who's never actually been at risk of being arrested on a drug charge, health care reform is just another annoying tax-day line item if you've never had to worry about not being insured.

If you're that kind of person, I guess it's possible to forget that the whole point of even trying health care reform was to correct a proved-broken system that left a huge plurality of the population living for decades in a kind of permanent mental health crisis, with millions laboring under the stress of knowing that they might be one serious illness away from bankruptcy, foreclosure, even homelessness (and historically, this has been true even of people with insurance).


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