Reform of U.S. health care is a must
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Well-financed opponents have launched a blitzkrieg of public disinformation in an attempt to derail reform of health care in America. They employ a host of scare tactics, including the overused friend in Canada or relative in England who finds all kinds of fault in those countries' health-care systems. Of course, we also hear that people in those countries would not trade their systems for ours. But discussing other countries' success or failure misses the point and diverts attention from our real challenge: providing quality affordable health care to all Americans.
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