Now, there's no reason we can't do it. Everyone else has figured out how to do it. And they've gotten business, and they've gotten labor, and they've gotten government and they've got citizens involved and they've come up with a system that works for them. Each one of the systems is different.
The only thing that's been missing in the United States is the political will. Now, we've been here...I've been here twenty years and, before that, there were a number of people who have tried, but the problem simply gets worse, because every year, we put band-aids on one problem or another. And so, I think in 2009, we are going to have an American universal system that covers everybody, that can't be taken away, and is paid for by all the people.
That way we'll have a system that will make it possible to move from job to job. It will be possible for college students, when they're looking for jobs to still have health care.
It should cover everyone, at all times, because you never know when you're going to get sick or be in an accident."
-Jim McDermott - September 13, 2007
I’m not sure if you’re Nanny State ping covers universal healthcare or not, but they’re only looking after us, ya know.
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