Letter to House Speaker Boehner
Our health care system is broken. It might be the best healthcare in the world. If so, it's the best healthcare only for those who can afford it. For most Americans, good healthcare is an unobtainable extravagance. Luxuries aren't objectionable, but when the few have much and the many haven't even life's necessities, our elected representatives, all Americans, must stand up for those who cannot themselves stand.
Mr. Speaker, comprehensive healthcare for all Americans is not a political issue. Clearly, the current national healthcare plan needs polishing, but not elimination. The profit motive has no place in medicine. In the wealthiest nation on earth, it's reprehensible that anyone is denied respectable medical care.
At the heart of any healthcare discussion is whether the American people have compassion for their fellow countrymen. We can afford a comprehensive national healthcare plan if we have the moral will to do so. Every American must ask themselves the eternal question, "Am I my brother's keeper?" If the answer is no, what have we become?
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