Nice lady can't afford a mammogram ?

TV news was interviewing Americans hit suddenly by hard times.

    You don't need the imagination of Charles Dickens to picture their

    daily challenges. One lady -perhaps comfortably and safely middle

    class- had lost her health insurance. " I can't afford a mammogram ",

    she said. Every hospital in the country should be available to this

    woman - and millions more without health insurance. And without

    pitiful pleas for help. This truth should sink into the moral

    consciousness of America: Health care is human right!

                How odd that car insurance is compulsory but the very

    idea of a national health care plan raises conservative eye brows.

               It is impractical to think health care can be absolutely

    FREE for everybody. But we can begin  by making it more affordable

    for everybody. The one truly GREAT Kennedy,  Senator Ted, has been

    keeping this idea alive. God bless him for it !

              Most medical doctors see themselves as professionals-not

    plastic hearted shop keepers. The GOOD doctor is eager to help

    sick people get well again -whatever their economic status.

                I believe a national health care plan will also

    eliminate the terror of nasty law suits.

               And nobody who ends up in a hospital accident room

    should be rudely quizzed - while in a high anxiety state of

    mind -about their financial resources.

                  " What, no blue cross ? I guess you'll just have

    to drop dead ! "