Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program

President Truman's words, echoed today, were themselves echoes of a century earlier:
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"WE BELIEVE that the conditions of perfect health, either public
or personal, are seldom or never attained, though attainable ;-
that the average length of human life may be very much extended,
and its physical power greatly augmented ;-that in every
year, within this Commonwealth, thousands of lives are lost
which might have been saved ;-that tens of thousands of cases
of sickness occur, which might have been prevented ;-that a
vast amount of unnecessarily impaired health, and physical debility
exists among those not actually confined by sickness ;-that
these preventable evils require an enormous expenditure and
loss of money, and impose upon the people unnumbered and
immeasurable calamities, pecuniary, social, physical, mental,
and moral, which might be avoided,--that means exist, within
our reach, for their mitigation or removal ;-and that measures
for prevention will effect infinitely more, than remedies for the
cure of disease ."

In a more recent publication is an excellent summary of the current situation. Read at least the
Main Conclusions (about two pages) of the Congressional Budget Office overview of current proposals for healthcare/insurance reform, at http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9...-KeyIssues.pdf.

at last maybe we will have an effective democrat in office.

Step 1 the economy

step 2 end the illegal war

step 3 health care for all

step whatever job works program, old concept long over due for renewal and revamping.

I normally keep my opinion to myself, No not today, One.. I dont believe I fought in a illegal war, Two.. Only the American people can ultimately control the economy .. but I dont claim to be an economists.. Three... How about affordable health care for all.... i stress the word affordable, not free.... an Finally, you mention job works programs, another idea of socialism that would ultimately do nothing for the economy or maybe it would, I dont know.

I respect your beliefs and also those of my family who have been over there and those of my father who was a casualty stemming from Nam. However It is not only I who claims the war is illegal. I put the blame straight on the Bush Clan and Cheney, I know where the blame. As always I support the troops. Not the Commander in chief.

Check your history books, jobs works programs established and built a significant part of our infrastructure why cant it be put to use and done again. Seems simple enough

Actually making health care free , if your on minimum wage you cant find anything affordable. However health care should be a privilege shared by all.

All I Want For Christmas Is Less Charity CURE THE PLIGHT OF CARE

The most heartbreaking e-mail alerts that crossed my computer screen this holiday season arrived from an active, progressive union that has set up a fund for medical benefits for widows and orphans of their former members.
Reliance on charity rather than a public safety net symbolizes what has become a perversely unique American solution to social problems, especially in the Bush administration era.
In "Critical Condition," a searing 2006 indictment of the collapse of our medical system, Donald Bartlett and James Steele described how pervasive this dependence has become. Garage sales, spaghetti feeds, livestock auctions, pancake breakfasts, walkathons, bingo tournaments, pie socials, carwashes, church suppers, raffles, barbecues, basketball shootouts, even hot-air balloon rides, all to help families drowning with un-payable medical bills....

...In an era when our government has intervened on behalf of Citigroup and AIG and Freddy and Fannie and all those financial wizards on Wall Street, maybe we can bail out the tens of millions of Americans without having to count on auctions or widows' funds to pay for medical care....

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