Buffalo Boy's Blog

If this call isn't proof that we need UNIVERSAL, SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE I don't know what is. This man Joe who is calling from Atlanta describes his familys experience with cancer and the failure of our healthcare system.

This man lost his business, lost his insurance, his son has the same symptoms that led to his cancer and his wife now has cervical cancer. He is broken by our broken healthcare system:

10-02-09-hour3-joe-from-atlanta[1].mp3 - Ed Schultz

This should not happen in the so called greatest country in the world. Yet it does all too often and here we are at a point where the change that those of us wanted when we elected our president is being compromised because the greedy, for profit health insurance companies have managed to pay off just about every congressman and woman and senator of this country.

I know that Michael Moore has released his new movie Capitalism this weekend but part of me feels that we need a Sicko 2 to reinforce what the first Sicko attempted to get across to the American public, that our healthcare system sucks and needs some major overhaul with a government run public option at the very least.

Republicans say they are for business owners, yeah, the multi billion dollar business owners who can line their pockets including the extremely wealthy health insurance CEOs from United Healthcare and Blue Cross/ Blue Shield.