送交者: xj 于 2005-11-07, 11:59:36:
Paul Krugman in today’s NYT is selling his national health insurance idea again. He reiterated the rationales those liberals had promoted ten years ago. Former president Clinton, and in particular Hillary Clinton, also strongly support this view. In fact, it was Hillary who drove the national health insurance movement in 1993. For this, I will support Hillary to go for president in 2008. :-)
I am a firm believer of national health insurance. I was and am still deeply disturbed by the mistake of crushing the health system for peasants (accuse Deng Xiao Ping for this). Yes, I once believed that everything during old days was wrong, but now I am more critical. I believe that only national health insurance can provide health care to its people. It is the responsibility of the government to ensure its people’s health. Private health plan can serve as a supplement to the national insurance, but nothing more.
There are still many people these days who may dismiss everything happened before 1979, believing that it was a turmoil and humiliating society (I hate those hypocritical intellectuals). However, many people of working class and poor peasants still cherish one thing a lot—the virtually free health care.
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