Healthcare — The Acutely Visible Sign of a Prosperous Inclusive Society
I am the mother of three teenage boys, one of whom has suffered a great deal from asthmatic bronchitis, one who has a congenital heart condition and a third who was born with a cleft lip and gum. For two long years I had to physically force my screaming baby to breathe through a mask twice a day; I regularly get called in to bi-annual monitoring of my third son’s congenital heart condition; I have beaten a path to the hearing-and-speech institute for close monitoring of speech development, evaluation of bone tissue transplants and preparation for upcoming rhinoplasty.
HOW DARE YOU denigrate the efforts that Obama made to make the lives of people with similar circumstances to me tenable?
My son, whose situation I describe in detail below, is an American citizen.
Luckily for our family, I am a Danish citizen.
Read what Kennedy writes about the great unfinished business of our society.
Obama’s efforts to make healthcare available and affordable were thwarted at every turn by republicans.
This resulted in a grossly-watered-down version of healthcare unaffordable by even the middle class, as documented in Gerard Mclean’s 100 letters to Hillary Clinton:
I repeat Kennedy’s exhortation:
The Great Unfinished Business of Our Society
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