Dear Conservative who is opposed to a universal health care system,
According to Dora Calott Wang in her upcoming book, The Kitchen Shrink: A Psychiatrist’s Reflections on Healing in a Changing World, prior to deregulation in the 1980s, “courts repetitively ruled that it was ‘against sound public policy’ for companies to seek profit from medical care.” Thus the notion that the free market as the answer to improved health care is not only a fairly recent point of view, it represents a 180-degree reversal from this country’s traditional values. Traditional values, I might add, that are deeply rooted in a conservative philosophy. In order for American health care to adhere to our conservative origins the profit motive simply must be removed from the entire equation.
Think about it.
Also, how can someone be simultaneously pro-life and anti-health care for those same lives? Just asking.