Newsbusters? Are you kidding? Is this another of your "major news outlets"? That deserves a threebie I've enjoyed your tapdance. Unfortunately, your credibility is still zero. And the above didn't help matters any.
It's just a matter of your personal philosophy, some consider access to heatlh care an essential component of a modern industrialized nation, but not access to a nice car. Others don't. Some wouldn't want to live in a nation where everyone did not have access to health care, whereas they would be OK with everyone not being able to own a new car. Others would be OK with only those who can afford health care being able to get it. You have to decide those things for yourself. As for me, I don't consider access to a nice car and access to health care as analogous.
Universal health care is a much better system, and unfortunately it might take several more crisis for the US to realize this. Morally, health care is not the area that a first world country should scrimp on in the name of creating financial classes. If you pay higher premiums then others, the trade off is you get a safer friendlier place to go about your business. Maybe like Canada or Sweden. What use is it making more money if you take on added risk of getting robbed ( be it criminally or by Wall Street ), shot, or acquiring a deadly virus ? Worshipping the almighty dollar has gone way too far in the US, it's time to moderate and create a more just society. If the "uninsured" people are legal US citizens, you have no right to begrudge their attempts to stay healthy and build a better future for themselves or their family. Perhaps you should be asking instead why the riches being horded by the top 1% aren't translating into decent job opportunities for others. Thinking you can buy an advanced standing to proper medical care is an immoral position. To what extent the US health care system takes your stance I have no idea, but discharging the Ebola patient seems highly suspect.
I don't know that it will take a "crisis" per se. What is most likely to provide the tipping point is a trend toward employers no longer providing health insurance, or making the costs and deductibles so high that few can afford it. WalMart has started the ball rolling on this one, and it'll be interesting to see how it all falls out.
the dems had the majority they needed. They chose to create insurance company care rather than single payer or a single payer hybrid. its political and the leftists in Congress sold out americans to insurance companies. its not going to happen as long reid pelosi and boehner types run Congress.
An inconvenient truth to the buffoons still worshiping all things democrap. Congressional term limits should have been included in the 22nd amendment.
we certainly need term limits. the longer they are there the worse they get for america. they are not afraid of ebola because they are a similar disease puking on the workers.