Healthcare: It's a question of morality

santonel

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Wednesday August 05, 2009 · 3:13 PM PDT

2009/08/05 · 15:13

I've been a long time lurker here at DKos but this is my first post. But being a Canadian and watching the healthcare debate in the U.S. has been excruciating to say the least and I feel inclined to speak up and offer my opinion.

Much of the information being disseminated about universal healthcare is cherry-picked at best and completely false at worst. That these charlatans like Dick Morris and Rick Scott get a platform to preach their gloom and doom predictions about healthcare reform is infuriating to me in the first place. That the media tries to depict their credibility as equal to that of the proponents of a universal plan just makes it that much worse. We obviously have the facts on our side given that universal healthcare works so well in so many countries including America's neighbor to the north. And yet our counter-attacks seldom seem to make it through the media filter. And if they do I still find there is one component that is lacking.

You can argue about the cost and the effectiveness of a universal plan until you're blue in the face but I think we're missing the biggest reason to implement such a system: It's the right thing to do. It's not a question of cost, it's a question of morality and that's how we need to frame the debate.

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