Bill Moyers on Health Care
After we tucked the girl into bed last night, we watched Bill Maher interview one of my all time favorite people, Bill Moyers. If I were to have a dinner party and could invite any three people on the planet, he would be one of them. Moyers spoke about health care for all citizens as a moral issue, not a financial one, and didn’t miss a beat when Maher asked him for an appropriate metaphor to capture exactly where we are in this morass. I hope President Obama was watching, too.
Here’s a short clip of the compelling twenty minute interview.
We need more people in the boat to extend a helping hand, a life saving helping hand in some cases, to the many millions who are not in the boat. Too many people in the boat have no idea what it’s like to be outside of the boat.
I love Bill Moyers, too. And he’d be on my diner’s short list as well.
I wish I could remember the exact interview, but a few weeks ago I did here the President respond to the following statement (roughly): so Mr President, you are asking people who make over (such and such per year) to essentially pay a bit more so that others have health coverage? President Obama answered: shouldn’t it be that the wealthy ‘want’ to do what they can to ensure that poorer people have insurance? It’s not a political issue it’s a human issue (again, this is all rough and according to what I recall…)