On Healthcare: Viggo Mortensen strikes again

From his website:

"In the U.S.A., at this time when at least an incremental step is being considered by Congress toward legally guaranteeing that all citizens have some form of health-care coverage, the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are spending record sums to advertise the benefits of the status-quo. This would be the same status-quo that has enriched insurance companies for many years while leaving millions of citizens young and old uninsured or cheated out out of the often unreliable and over-priced coverage that they might barely afford. The same status-quo that has allowed pharmaceutical companies, with the collusion of our government representatives (most of whom are heavily-lobbied and campaign-funded by these very companies), to make huge, unjustified profits. What does this massive surge in public relations spending by the insurance and pharmaceutical companies, to the tune of millions of dollars a day on all media advertising, tell you? Does it perhaps beg the question of why so many members of Congress are dragging their feet, trying to dilute and delay legislation until it amounts to a practically meaningless change in the national health care system? Does it explain the resistance from mainstream television and radio spokespeople to real change in the system, or the voice given to disreputable hack doctors and scientists that have suddenly been enlisted to resist this change? Does it throw some light on the motivations of extreme right-wing corporate shills like Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, Medved (and too many of their clones to mention) in their efforts to vilify President Obama or anyone wanting to at least try to set up a slightly more equitable and efficient health care system in this country so that we might take another step toward becoming a civilised nation? V.M."

http://www.percevalpress.com

I'd move to his district just so I could vote for him.

If he wears the Aragorn getup to work every day, bonus points.

mental illness".

*Republicans protest*

"Do you have a...problem? *hand strays to sword hilt*"

*Protests clam up quickly*

"That's what I thought."

his home town: Watertown, NY!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York%27s_23rd_congressional_district

Where I'm sure afterward he'd bring down the "kingdom" for some REAL democracy for a change!

Before the Iraq invasion, I'm pretty sure.

Viggo's a good guy. (And there aren't many)

Come on. Most of the really talented and creative people in the biz are liberals.

They get Chuck Norris - and we get Viggo Mortensen? Awesome!

They get the guy who doesn't wash his hair.

who sings his own theme song. Badly.

I hope his statements are heard over those screaming nonesense.

:loveya:

Reading his poetry too. He is quite the Renaissance man -- actor, writer, activist, and yes he even does the T-shirts! Great human being and a hell of a actor too.

I'd be interested in knowing how the other cast members of LOTR view this healthcare issue. If they could get the entire cast on board, it might make some noise, given the massive popularity of the trilogy of films.

Liv Tyler, daughter of the lead singer of Aerosmith is a vegan. She's the appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). She's also a major supporter of the Women's Cancer Research Fund. I'd like to see Aragorn, Arwen, and the others stage a mass rally and concert for the reform of healthcare. I think a lot of people would stand up and take notice.

Smart guy that Viggo.

God I love that guy!

The Road.