Health care debate looming, and the Swift Boating is about to begin
8 comments June 11th, 2009
As the health care debate swings into high gear on Capitol Hill, the medical/insurance establishment is preparing to Swift Boat any meaningful reform plan. You’ll hear and see thousands of commercials warning you about the danger of socialist medicine, which is not what Obama will propose. But no matter, smear campaigns work. You won’t hear that most Canadians consistently tell poll takers they wouldn’t trade their single-payer system for ours, or that Canadians live longer, have a much lower infant mortality rate, and live longer than Americans. Their health care system emphasizes wellness; ours is based on the auto mechanic shop model. Your body gets broken, we charge you parts and labor to fix it. Wellness is antithetical to our model, because people who aren’t sick can’t be charged.
Anyway, here’s a good column in today’s NYTimes that’s related to this topic:
