Posted on 12/09/2013 5:31:00 PM PST by markomalley
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has waded into the health care debate with a broad endorsement of the kind of universal health plan found in Europe, Canada and South Korea.
"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, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, last week at an annual "survivors celebration breakfast" in Seattle for those who, like Powell, have battled prostate cancer. "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."
Europe, Canada and Korea all have a "single-payer" system, in which the government pays for the costs of health care.
Some Democrats who strongly advocated for, and failed to get, a single-payer system in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, still believe the current law doesn't go far enough to reform the US health system.
A retired four-star general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Powell told the audience about a woman named Anne, who as his firewood supplier, faced a healthcare scare of her own. Anne asked Powell to help pay for her healthcare bills, as her insurance didn't cover an MRI she needed as a prerequisite to being treated for a growth in her brain. In addition, Powell's wife Alma recently suffered from three aneurysms and an artery blockage. "After these two events, of Alma and Anne, I've been thinking, why is it like this?" said Powell.
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Same guy who went to the UN and said that Iraq had WMDs.
Bump
So they would be healthy if we had single payer healthcare? I feel for these women going through such a traumatic experience but on top of that, they’re being used as political pawns.
Colin clearly peter-principled out at colonel. Just shut up and go away and take the money from the white people you now seem to hate so much.
I am not an expert in health care
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So why are you weighing in? HUMM?
A$$
He can pitch horseshoes in a minefield for all I care.
I never liked or respected him.
Go away, Colin and enjoy your retirement, quietly.
Obamacare is about destroying the standard against which healthcare can be compared.
The Marxist model is that the capitalist backdrop must be destroyed as a comparison...because it must die if Marxism can live.
Except for the elite, the people must suffer so that the least of us can get minimal coverage. Except for the elite, the people (call them the middle class) must slide down the economic ladder so that the least of us can see their income rise.
The Marxist modelers are happy when regular folks are poor...because the poor can now say they are on a par with the middle class.
Hurray for the elites. They have made the poor equal to the middle class.
If they can’t handle Obamacare, how on Earth would they be able to handle single-payer?
M.C.: Thank you General Powell! (applause)
Single payer would be WORSE than Obamacare... is he nuts?
I think he should River Dance in one.
He be a brotha now...so don'tcha be calling him American. That's an insult to a Black Man.
Ethos, logos, pathos: Strike one!
Try telling a sad story, like Chewbacca.
Colin exhibits profile envy. He has none and has to pop out every once in awhile. It’s time.
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