Sick
“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in 1937, in his second inaugural address.
Today, 88 years later, FDR would see one-third of Americans going without medical care.
A national poll by Embold Research (1,736 registered voters, July 1-7) found that “nearly 30% of Americans indicated that they faced barriers obtaining healthcare for themselves or their families in the past year.”
People with less money get less healthcare, the poll showed.
“Americans earning less than $50,000 were nearly twice as likely (35%) to report being unable to get needed medical care in the past year as those earning $150,000 or more (18%) ….
“The cost of healthcare presents a serious barrier to access, with one in three Americans reporting they were unable to afford the cost of a medical visit or medication in the past year. Nearly half (47%) of voters earning less than $50,000 and 35% of those earning $50,000-$99,999 per year report being unable to afford the cost of a medical visit or medication in the past year….
“Lengthy waits and scheduling challenges further challenge Americans…. For rural Americans, distance adds another barrier to care.”
And we’re just beginning to suffer the Medicaid cuts imposed by Trump and Republicans in Congress – cuts that even conservative North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis denounced.
What would FDR do?
Instead of cruel cuts, he’d offer the American people hope and help.
He’d say, as he did at that inaugural, “It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope—because the nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out. We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country’s interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
To deliberately misquote Archie Bunker: Mister, we could use a President like Franklin Roosevelt again.
Sick
“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt said in 1937, in his second inaugural address.
Today, 88 years later, FDR would see one-third of Americans going without medical care.
A national poll by Embold Research (1,736 registered voters, July 1-7) found that “nearly 30% of Americans indicated that they faced barriers obtaining healthcare for themselves or their families in the past year.”
People with less money get less healthcare, the poll showed.
“Americans earning less than $50,000 were nearly twice as likely (35%) to report being unable to get needed medical care in the past year as those earning $150,000 or more (18%) ….
“The cost of healthcare presents a serious barrier to access, with one in three Americans reporting they were unable to afford the cost of a medical visit or medication in the past year. Nearly half (47%) of voters earning less than $50,000 and 35% of those earning $50,000-$99,999 per year report being unable to afford the cost of a medical visit or medication in the past year….
“Lengthy waits and scheduling challenges further challenge Americans…. For rural Americans, distance adds another barrier to care.”
And we’re just beginning to suffer the Medicaid cuts imposed by Trump and Republicans in Congress – cuts that even conservative North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis denounced.
What would FDR do?
Instead of cruel cuts, he’d offer the American people hope and help.
He’d say, as he did at that inaugural, “It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope—because the nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out. We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country’s interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
To deliberately misquote Archie Bunker: Mister, we could use a President like Franklin Roosevelt again.