I know it’s early, but in watching the debates from New Hampshire tonight I found it impossible to get past the fact that Rudy Giuliani just said we have the best healthcare system in the world. He didn’t say the best healthcare, or the best doctors, or the best medicine - he said the best healthcare system. I understand it’s still early in the debates, but what kind of douchebag is going to say that our healthcare system is the best?
We have millions of people without insurance, people who can’t afford the insurance they have, people who can’t get care, pharmaceutical companies making billions, and dozens of other fatal flaws in our system. The fact that somebody who expects to become president of the United States could possibly use the words “best”, or even “good” when talking about the healthcare system in the united states is reprehensible. Is somebody going to man up and work to fix this problem?
Um, okay. Now I don’t have to provide health insurance for my kids, but if I did I would have to quit my job and go on state assisted health care because the premiums (which have increased for some where I work by as much as 200 percent this year) would literally leave me unable to provide the basics like food, shelter, etc. And after watching family members endure some unbelievable healthcare bills because they don’t have/cannot afford insurance I have to wonder, who’s Rudy’s health care provider and what are they doing for him that would make him actually believe that statement?
The sooner the citizens of this country take a look, beyond 9/11, at Guiliani’s record the sooner he will withdraw from an already shallow pool of Republican candidates.
Dave
January 5th, 2008
Looks great
Samantha
January 29th, 2008