The health-care debate has exposed the ancient bigotry of classism.
Government and businesses are eliminating jobs, cutting salaries and benefits, and at the same time arguing that health care is a privilege, not a right.
The majority of the people against national health care can afford to purchase their own or already get it in a benefit package.
Telling someone who cannot afford to buy their own insurance that they’re on their own, but good luck anyway with that cancer, is the equivalent of driving by the soup kitchen in your SUV and wishing it was in another neighborhood.
Todd Fredrickson
Monroe
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