What better way to attune our leaders to the needs of their constituents without health insurance than to put them in the same position? Full Story »
Posted by Cynthia Gilbert - via OneRiot, Nicholas Kristof, NewsRack (Health Care), Opinion Source, New York Times (Opinion), AllTop, New York Times (Most Emailed), mark breslauer (f)
The collapse of health reform would be a political and policy failure, but it would also be a profound moral failure. Periodically, there are political questions that are fundamentally moral, including slavery in the 19th century and civil rights battles in the 1950s and ’60s. In the same way, allowing tens of thousands of Americans to die each year because they are uninsured is not simply unwise and unfortunate. It is also wrong — a moral blot on a great nation.
