Michael Winship | Even Camelot Needed Health Care
Michael Winship, Truthout: "The first time I ever heard the dreaded phrase 'socialized medicine' was during John F. Kennedy's presidency, when the GOP fought his administration's attempts at health care reform. And during his own, all too brief presidential campaign in 1968, when Bobby Kennedy told audiences that decent medical care should not be a luxury of the rich, he quoted Aristotle: 'If we believe men have any personal rights at all, then they must have an absolute moral right to such a measure of good health as society can provide.'"
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Background on Health Care
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