An Honest Democrat’s Speech on Health Care
Posted by Adam Graham in : Video Blogging[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7Y0TOBuG4&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]
The money quote, “We’re going to have to, if you’re very old, we’re not going to give you all that technology and all those drugs for the last couple of years of your life to keep you maybe going for another couple of months. It’s too expensive, so we’re going to let you die.”
Also, promising more expense to the young, in exchange for a shorter lifespan because there won’t be much profit in improving medical technology. For obvious reasons, we never end up facing the honest Democrat in debate, and instead get the charlatan who tells us, “Yes, we can.”
Hat Tip: Don Surber
Comment by thepoetryman
I think the point Mr. Reich was making in this short clip dated from 2007 is being misinterpreted to fit into some already established notions of the Democratic Party and health-care reform.
He was not saying what he would himself have said if the policies he espoused, along with President Clinton, were to actually have passed back when they were trying to pass health care reform, he was giving a scenario of what the present day candidate would say if he or she were being honest about the state of current health care. See?
If one takes his entire speech, not just what is offered in this video, but the whole speech, one would see that he himself does not wish for this to be the reality, but that if the state of health care continues down the path it has been going down, without reform, the scenario will certainly be palpable.
A clip of this nature does not a conspiracy make, unless everyone that watches it are not willing to understand Reich’s use of this particular scenario as it applies to the Republican party and certain democrats siding with the lobbyists of big insurance companies and our soon to fail health care system if sweeping reform is not undertaken.