Healthcare and Free Press: Two Human Rights We Lack

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Now the media is telling us we are apprehensive about health care reform because of cost.

I guess that $1,400,000 per day that the health-industrial-complex is pouring into the media and Congress via lobbyists is starting to take hold.
Look at who advertises on mainstream media. Lots of big pharma, insurance vultures, etc...

Wake up people...we are being played.


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Healthcare and Free Press: Two Human Rights We Lack
Posted on 23 July 2009
By David Swanson

President Obama said on Tuesday night:

"Now, the truth is that, unless you have a -- what's called a single-payer system, in which everybody is automatically covered, then you're probably not going to reach every single individual because there's always going to be somebody out there who thinks they're indestructible and doesn't want to get health care, doesn't bother getting health care, and then, unfortunately, when they get hit by a bus, end up in the emergency room and the rest of us have to pay for it."

Another name for "what's called a single-payer system" would be: healthcare as a human right, not a commodity to be purchased. Many humans have this right. They just aren't Americans.

Obama's mention of single-payer, in passing, as something that would be better than anything else, but something that mysteriously lies out of reach, is typical of the very few mentions of single-payer healthcare in the U.S. corporate media.

http://www.davidswanson.org/node/1981

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