100 years of Health Care Reform efforts in 8 minutes
At the health Care forum Saturday night Professor Ted Brown gave a wonderfully powerful and engrossing speech where he provided a rich overview of the history of Health Care reform here in the United States. Ladkiddo wrote this in our first impressions of Saturday’s Health Care forum.
Historian/U of R Professor Theodore Brown: Use of scare tactics against progressive causes is not new. He showed examples of campaigns for universal health care dating back to 1912(this all started with Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose Party). A national health care plan was in the works when FDR died and Harry Truman grabbed the baton and ran with it, but just as we see smear campaigns trying to destroy the single-payer initiative today, the private insurer’s propaganda did it’s job well. We can’t allow this to happen again.
Well, I’ve condensed the speech to 8 minutes (it was tough). Have a listen and check out the slides that he uses.
Remember, there are three main points
- Desire for a single payer option has been around for over a 100 years
- The forces of opposition have also been around for a long time and are very powerful
- Success will come from building coalitions (which is how we got the single payer system called Medicare) otherwise the patchwork services we have that constitute our existing and inefficient system will simply continue.
It is an 8 minute video but the slides he addresses are especially interesting. Especially the early lies and smears used to discredit a single payer system. Much like what sbr covered in this weeks Wednesday Wingnut post.
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There is no doubt the health care system is broke and needs to be overhauled. The 4 videos, Saving The American Health Care System, are an invaluable source of unbiased information.
ah Ron Paul videos…
Yes, the physician/congressman with an understanding of economics that is unequaled by most. His experience in all areas affecting health care costs makes him uniquely qualified to render an intelligent analysis and solutions. If you bother to watch the videos, assuming you really do want to educate yourself on the subject, you will see that is his criticism is non-partisan and objective.
Your original reply, “ah Ron Paul videos . . .”, indicates a dismissive, closed minded approach to the subject.
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