Charity Care

Chris Hayes from The Nation Magazine was on Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight and I thought he had a brilliant analysis of the Republican strategy for health care. If you don't want to watch the entire clip, just check out 2:10 - 4:15:

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"Civilization on this planet had charity based health care for a long time... and, sure, fine ... if you're in the 9th century, and you can drag yourself, ill, to the local church and get some charity care that's fine, but that's not the way that a country in the 21st century takes care of this fundamental public issue. We come together ... through self-governance to address these things. This is not something that's to be tossed off as a realm of charity."

Well said!

I love how Senator Coburn doesn't realize that the concept of neighbors helping neighbors is just another way to describe a democratic government...