Medicare...

Here is another fine letter this morning regarding healthcare, specifically Medicare.
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We have a perfectly good, if underfunded, government-run - and potentially universal - health care system right now. It's called Medicare.

Let every American opt into Medicare at a fair and affordable rate.

Universal access to health care is an American right, not a privilege. Driving is a privilege. Accessing health care is not a choice - it is a necessity. It's a matter of life and death.

Therefore, if you respect life, if you are a right-to-lifer, if you are a compassionate conservative, you must support universal health care. And the only way we can achieve that is to take the profit motive out of the equation. Pay the medical service providers a fair wage, and stop throwing money at those who profit from the misery of their fellow man: the insurance companies.

It's the cost-effective alternative to the catastrophic-care system we have now, which gives us half the care as Europeans for twice the price."

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I worry that the Republicans and other right-wingers are not only blocking reasonable health care reform but they are tearing down the presidency of Barrack Obama as well. That would be tragedy for this country.