Posted on 12/07/2013 7:15:36 PM PST by pluvmantelo
Former Secretary of State and longtime Republican Colin Powell is calling for a universal health care solution in the U.S. “We are a wealthy enough country with the capacity to make sure that every one of our fellow citizens has access to quality health care,” he said Thursday at a Seattle fundraiser for prostate cancer. “(Let’s show) the rest of the world what our democratic system is all about and how we take care of all of our citizens." The retired four-star general, a prostate cancer survivor, spoke at the Prostate Cancer Survivors Celebration Breakfast, organized by UW Medicine and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center . Powell took the opportunity to share some of his own experiences and to publicly call for a health care solution similar to those in Canada, Japan and other countries that have a universal, single-payer system. In the case of his own cancer diagnosis, he recovered, thanks to what he described as universal health care offered through the U.S. military. “I am not an expert in health care, or Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, or however you choose to describe it, but I do know this: I have benefited from that kind of universal health care in my 55 years of public life,” Powell said. “And I don’t see why we can’t do what Europe is doing, what Canada is doing, what Korea is doing, what all these other places are doing.”
Next week, this longtime Republican will call for the dictatorship of the proletariat and the purging of the Kulaks.
Wow.....what a jerk.
let the vermin die in hospitals. I’m leaving for a saner country, preferably an island surrounded by raging waters.
And so the call for single-payer starts with a RINO.
I get so sick of people calling Powell a Republican, just because he worked for a Republican President.
Powell has always refused to say what his party affiliation is, and who he voted for.
Republican? Where? Powell voted for Obama twice and now wants universal healthcare? He is a traitor to Freedom.
But don’t you teabaggers dare call him a Communist.
Okay I’ll call him a socialist, since that is just a soft word for communist.And he and nobama are probably teabagging each....
Is it just my imagination, or is Colin Powell the most reliable “reverse indicator” there’s been in, say, the last 20 years?
Actually, he claims to have voted for Obama.
Screw that racists!
this a-hole voted for Odumbo, ergo, he’s irrelevant.
Has there ever actually been any doubt who and what this man is?
But, we already knew that, before he said this.
How much $$ did he get to say this?
What saner country would that be? Most all have socialized health care.
Dedicated socialist!
Isn’t a republican and never was, only by registration!
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