"A Failed System"?

TheHill.com - Healthcare must be a right, not a privilege, in America: "Healthcare has been the single biggest domestic crisis facing America for at least the last decade, and yet time and again Congress has applied Band-Aids to cover a gaping wound. Every other American, not including members of Congress, is one accident, illness or diagnosis away from financial ruin in the richest nation on Earth. If that isn’t an embarrassment as well as a call to action, then Congress has truly become indifferent to the American people."

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash) speak up for nationalized health care and means that the current system has failed. There was actually an attempt to introduce national health care for all Americans 1949 but the American Medical Association lobbied heavily against it. Among the arguments were that the physician-patient relation was holy.

One argument that McDermott uses is that the government runs the military and does this well. Why would it not run health care well? This is a clever argument knowing that Americans are sensitive about their safety against national treats but not so sensitive about their health.

The Right to Health Care is not written into the Constitution but it is included indirectly in Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness as Life, which occasionally requires health care.