We offer free education, and don't worry about middle-class families getting benefits they don't need, because that's the only way to ensure that every child gets an education -- and giving every child a fair chance is the American way. And we should guarantee health care to every child, for the same reason.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Is Universal Health Care for Children a Socialist Plot?
Paul Krugman offers some cogent arguments in the debate over whether universal health care for children would be "middle class welfare" or a "socialist plot." Here's a quote:
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Unfortunately, there are those (including many "big" names in the SBC) who are trying to dismantel the public school system. It is not done in the name of anti-socialist fairness, but the individualist, "I'm not my brother's keeper," worship at the temple of capitalism attitude is the same.
And we shouldn't stop with children. Healthcare is a human right in every other industrial nation than the U.S.
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