Peacenik believes in universal health care. Does that make Peacenik a freak? Cause watching Kudlow tonight, talking about the public option, made Peacenik think he was on the fringes of social thought. Peacenik assumes the public option is a pathetic subset of universal health care. But an important one. Kudlow and guests are outraged that the public option may mean more taxes. Taxes that would be passed on the the taxpayer. Kudlow thought the bailouts of the banking industry and GM and Chrysler were just dandy. And the war in the middle east. No problem for the taxpayers there.
All the talk is about socialism, communism, choice, taxes, freedom, choice, taxes, freedom. Peacenik is having a hard time believing the insurance companies have managed to corrupt the debate again. But it looks like the public option is going to be very tough to pass. Never mind that 47 million American's don't have health care. Never mind that kids die of tooth abcesses within shouting distance to the Whitehouse. Choice. Taxes. Freedom. Choice. Taxes. Freedom. Wins every time.
Mehmet Oz, M.D.
As I listened to 14 month old Analeigha Rivera's tiny heart in the Reliant Center in Houston, I could hear the murmur interrupting her regular rhythm as blood swished through a hole between the main chambers of the heart. An echocardiogram confirmed the diagnosis, so I could show her mother Victoria exactly where the problem was and explained to her that if little Analeigha didn't get supervised care by a pediatric cardiologist, we might miss our window to prevent life-threatening damage. I looked in her mother's tear-stained eyes and heard the same story that hundreds of others have recounted to me -- Victoria had a job but had lost her insurance. So Analeigha had nowhere to go. After I explained to her that we had resources on-site to help plan the next steps, one of my staff took me aside and told me we had just broken the record for the most people seen in a free clinic in one day. That's when my spirit sank a little.
All the talk is about socialism, communism, choice, taxes, freedom, choice, taxes, freedom. Peacenik is having a hard time believing the insurance companies have managed to corrupt the debate again. But it looks like the public option is going to be very tough to pass. Never mind that 47 million American's don't have health care. Never mind that kids die of tooth abcesses within shouting distance to the Whitehouse. Choice. Taxes. Freedom. Choice. Taxes. Freedom. Wins every time.
Mehmet Oz, M.D.
As I listened to 14 month old Analeigha Rivera's tiny heart in the Reliant Center in Houston, I could hear the murmur interrupting her regular rhythm as blood swished through a hole between the main chambers of the heart. An echocardiogram confirmed the diagnosis, so I could show her mother Victoria exactly where the problem was and explained to her that if little Analeigha didn't get supervised care by a pediatric cardiologist, we might miss our window to prevent life-threatening damage. I looked in her mother's tear-stained eyes and heard the same story that hundreds of others have recounted to me -- Victoria had a job but had lost her insurance. So Analeigha had nowhere to go. After I explained to her that we had resources on-site to help plan the next steps, one of my staff took me aside and told me we had just broken the record for the most people seen in a free clinic in one day. That's when my spirit sank a little.
