16 April 2007

Health care as a moral issue

The last fairly elected US President, Bill Clinton, spoke before a health care symposium yesterday as said, as reported by a Romanian web site, that "our health care system is immoral because it doesn't provide health care to everybody".

How does the American press describe his words?

A local TV station - he spoke on a "range of issues"

Another local TV station - the ex-President "challenged schools" to tackle obesity

The San Francisco Chronicle, a paper I usually admire, says that he described US medical care as "uneconomical". In their defence they do include the reference to immorality.

The only other outlet that I could find that features the moral issues involved is from India.

This is a moral issue and if we ensure that it is discussed as such perhaps progress (I mean "reality based" progress not "fantasy based, Bush observed Iraq" progress) can be made. Force the Christian right to deal with it on these terms and I do not believe that they can discount it. (I could be wrong of course. They are not necessarily strong in the logic department.)

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