How to Fix Our Health Care Mess
By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. Posted June 20, 2006. Universal health care is not an economic issue -- our country is the richest in the history of the world, and we already throw more money into the health care trough than any other nation in history. Nor is health care even a health issue -- our doctors, nurses, technicians, nutritionists, pharmacists and others are phenomenally skilled, having both the intellectual and technical capability to meet the health needs of everyone in our land.

Universal care is a moral issue -- and that's where our country has gone all slippery. Notice that the CEO class and political elites all are rolling along in the Rolls Royce of health plans, courtesy of generous subsidies from us taxpayers. These are the very people who control policymaking in Washington, and they have shown no ethical qualms about taking good care of themselves while watching the majority of their fellow citizens trying to go down life's bumpy health care road in a sputtering Yugo -- or, worse, on bare feet."