Sunday DFP: The crisis is in health care, NOT Soc Sec ... stupid!

Readers of the Detroit News also got this editorial in their Sunday paper due to a JOA.

Betcha can't read the whole piece without thinking of Andy.


http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/ehealth1e_20050501.htm

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Congress should consider ways to shore up Social Security, but the potential collapse of that entitlement system is so far off it takes a fiscal telescope to see it. Meantime, the crisis in health care is staring us in the face, and the nation's leaders still can't decide whether access to medicine is a right or a privilege.


Bush has pushed aside roughly 36 million uninsured Americans in favor of talking about a system that can pay out as promised for the next 34 years. Meantime, more and more businesses are reducing coverage and cutting benefits for retirees, the folks who, by reason of age, are most likely to need it, especially if they are not yet eligible for Medicare. And there are 20 million working adults, including about 450,000 in Michigan, whose jobs don't provide health care coverage.


Bush spent two months trying to convince Americans the sky is falling. And he's right. But it's not Social Security that's about to come down on our heads. It's health care.


The only consolation is that if problems in health care remain unsolved, there will likely be fewer Americans living long enough to collect Social Security, which should assure the system's solvency even longer.

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hey-that has a grand ring to it!!--good slogan

I like this....

this is a great way to:

1. Expose Bush's real agenda
2. Show that Bush is TOTALLY OUT OF TOUCH with real concerns of the Country....

..And No One Has An Answer To Either Problem

That's a load of far right reviionist statistcal shit..

What the hell is wrong with the Free press- accepting the right wing lies from last week. UN-Fucking believeable

The honest estimate of uninsured- which includes people eligible for- but who won't and maybe can't get medicaid- is easily 45 million- and probably closer to 50.

And the left wonders why it keeps losing....