Truly a horrific headline if there ever was one.
A society that idly sits by and allows catastrophic illness or injury to bankrupt individuals and families and ruin countless lives is a society deeply in need of some emergency life support itself.
It bears repeating. 60% of ALL personal bankruptcies have unpaid medical bills as the root cause! That's just an incredibly sad commentary on the state of this country's health care system.
Having had family members with horror stories of illness and subsequent dealings with the health care industry bean counters as well as my own recent adventure with the same monolithic system, I can state first hand that something is god-awfully fucked up with the way health care is managed in America today.
One of the great boogey men for the conservatives has been Michael Moore. Regardless of how you feel about Moore's politics, if you haven't seen his movie Sicko, you should. It's a damning indictment of health care in the United States and the people running (profiting from) it and it's a subject that will touch everyone at some point in time no matter your political affiliation.
President Obama has made major health care reform one of the centerpiece goals of his administration's policy plans. If conservatives want to stand in the way of that vital national progress -- go for it. It'll just be another nail in the coffin of their morally and intellectually bankrupt ideological movement.
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