Thursday * August 27 * 7pm
UMass Campus Center Room 905-909
What's at Stake in the Health Care Debate?
For the almost 50 million uninsured Americans and many more under-insured, one thing is clear: we desperately need health care reform in this country. The United States is the richest, most powerful country in the world, yet citizens pay more and receive less care than in any other industrialized country.
For the almost 50 million uninsured Americans and many more under-insured, one thing is clear: we desperately need health care reform in this country. The United States is the richest, most powerful country in the world, yet citizens pay more and receive less care than in any other industrialized country.
The mainstream media is in a frenzy around the town hall meetings that have seen the mobilization of the racist, pro-business right wing and its opposition to socialized medicine. Paradoxically, polls show that almost 60 percent of Americans support a nationalized, single-payer health care plan.
While the behavior of the right has been consuming much of the discussion health care, it is obscuring the fact that Obama's proposed health care plan falls short of meeting people's health care needs. We need to refocus the debate around health care. Nothing short of a mass movement demanding that the insurance parasites stop getting in the middle of patients and doctors will win us real health care reform. Such a reform would be a huge blow to racism and sexism and would improve the lives of tens of millions.
Join the Amherst Branch of the International Socialist Organization in a discussion on what kind of health care we need and what it will take to win it.
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