Sunday, August 30, 2009

Health Care Reform: A Moral Issue

Bill Moyers has been running a great series on his PBS program, Bill Moyers' Journal. He's compared the U.S. health care system to other nations which provide comprehensive, quality, universal health care coverage. He's talked to former insurance executives who are just now speaking out against the corporate practices in which they engage (both to thwart efforts at reform, and in denying coverage generally), and he's been on the interview circuit talking about how and why health care reform is a moral issue that continues to be appropriated by big money interests at the expense of ordinary American citizens.

And, if you don't believe Moyers, just listen to this former CIGNA executive (Wendell Potter) he interviewed recently:



Must viewing for anyone interested in the current national dialogue over health care in America.