Bush’s Healthcare Reform: More Welfare for Corporate AmericaTommi Avicolli Meccabyline‚ Jan. 26‚ 2007When is a national healthcare plan almost as bad as no healthcare plan at all? When it’s proposed as a desperate PR gesture by a president with the lowest public approval rating (35%) since Richard Nixon got caught knee deep in the Watergate mudslide. President George W. Bush is knee deep in it himself, though it’s not mud that he’s stuck in. He unveiled his version of “health care reform” during his January 23 State of the Union address before the new Democratically-controlled Congress. As difficult as it is to imagine, his take on universal healthcare is even worse than his plan to send 20,000 additional troops to Iraq. Bush’s idea of “healthcare reform” is nothing short of a huge giveaway to corporate America. It’s a slap in the face to working-class people who can barely make it in an economy that has left them poorer than they’ve been in a long time. |