[lbo-talk] Frontline compares US healthcare to other rich countries

[B.]

Ironically, Charles Brown was just bashing Truman, and
the guy deserves it for, say, Nagasaki at the least,
but Truman, it should be noted, proposed Universal
health Care for all US citizens a couple of months
after WW2 ended. He called it a part of "The Fair
Deal," his extension of FDR's "New Deal."

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From:
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=483&st=&st1=

192. Truman's Special Message to the Congress
Recommending a Comprehensive Health Program

November 19, 1945

In my message to the Congress of September 6, 1945,
there were enumerated in a proposed Economic Bill of
Rights certain rights which ought to be assured to
every American citizen.

One of them was: "The right to adequate medical care
and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health."
Another was the "right to adequate protection from the
economic fears of . .. sickness ...."

Millions of our citizens do not now have a full
measure of opportunity to achieve and enjoy good
health. Millions do not now have protection or
security against the economic effects of sickness. The
time has arrived for action to help them attain that
opportunity and that protection.

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-B.

Michael Pollak wrote:

"On tonight on PBS, gets a good review. The review
doesn't mention Sicko,  but I assume Frontline must
have considered this something of a testing of Moore's
argument, and it seems they end up confirming him:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/arts/television/15sick.html "