Public option for health care
Published: October 22, 2009
Updated: October 22, 2009
A public option for health care reform is of utmost importance, not only as a form of social justice but as an economic measure to help American business stay profitable in the world market.
I urge legislators to give to the American people what FDR gave to Europe and Japan at the end of the Second World War and would have given to the American people in a second Bill of Rights, had he lived long enough to see it through — universal health care.
We are the richest country on Earth (for the moment), and we treat our fellow citizens as unworthy if they can’t pay. Congress: Please vote for single-payer health care reform and spend some of our money here at home for a change — and not on banks or corporations, but on the people!
Nancy Halgren, Culpeper
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Opa,
James was a Democrat. I’ll buy that. FDR was definitely a member of the Democrat Party for his first run for public office.
I’ll have to do some research to see where I got my bad information - or prove I am right.
Brewer, FDR was never a Republican. Like his father, he was always a Democrat. In 1910, he ran for the New York State Senate from the district around Hyde Park in Dutchess County, which had not elected a Democrat since 1884. The Democratic landslide that year carried him to the state capital of Albany, New York. Roosevelt entered the state house, January 1, 1911. He never switched parties.
I had no idea that FDR gave Europe and Japan their health care plans. That is neither here nor there, tho.
It might be interesting to some people, FDR was a Republican at heart. He switched parties to win his first election, as the sitting Republican was too strong for another Republican to beat.
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