Ooo, Good Question!
2 comments June 15th, 2005at 09:29am Posted by Eli
Letter to the NYT about Krugman’s national healthcare column:
I find Paul Krugman’s column disturbing. If 72 percent of Americans want a national health insurance program but insurance companies have the power to override that majority, what does that say about the health of our democracy?
I wish that question applied only to healthcare, but it seems like it applies to, well, pretty much everything these days.
2 Comments
1. oldwhitelady | June 15th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
It doesn’t say much for the health of democracy! It says a lot for the health of the insurance companies, though. They don’t want it, they are the fat cats, they get what they want. To hell with the public.
2. Eli | June 15th, 2005 at 7:31 pm
Not just the insurance companies, although that’s the example on display here. But there are all kinds of corporate and special interests who have a much greater say than any of us – remember bankruptcy and tort “reform”? Or how the Medicare bill didn’t allow the government to seek discounts from the pharma companies?