Guaranteed Healthcare

Maybe this is the moment that crystallizes it all: Rudy Giuliani has to flat-out lie in order to argue against a guaranteed healthcare on the single-payer model.  Worst of all, he trades on his own cancer diagnosis to prop up a healthcare system that is failing many other cancer patients.  It’s a perfect symbol for the twilight of a decrepit insurance-based healthcare system.

Eugene Robinson, Washington Post columnist extraordinaire, is having none of it.

I hate to be melodramatic, but that’s pretty much what it comes down to.

At least according to today’s report finding that America is last among industrialized democracies in terms of infant mortality.  Because our healthcare system is set up to guarantee billions of dollars of profit to unnecessary insurance corporations, kids born here are more likely to die than they are in countries with guaranteed healthcare through the single-payer model.

Trick or trick?

It’s not just that Rudy Ghouliani lied about the odds of patients in Britain surviving the kind of prostate cancer he had, in the controversial radio ad and message of the day he’s offering this Halloween.

It’s not just that  Rudy asserts the big lie, that “we have the best healthcare system in the world,” better than the “socialized medicine” practiced by scary countries like Canada, Taiwan, France, England, etc.  Or even that he is willing to pimp out his own cancer diagnosis, while dismissing the healthcare inequality that shames our nation.

Matt Miller in Time Magazine wonders if Republicans are "callous" on the issue of healthcare.  It would be deadly for voters to believe they are...no pun intended. 

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Today we learn that Rudy’s hooked on OxyContin money…Krugman finishes off the myth about waiting times in nations with guaranteed healthcare...and TX nurses are on the rise!