Thursday, March 17, 2011

Why health care reform matters–audio

By Melissa Harris-PerryMarketplace, Thursday, March 17, 2011

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Next week is the one-year anniversary of the landmark health care legislation. But the fight over health care policy continues.

Commentator Melissa Harris-Perry says the debate is still missing one critical element.


MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY: The fights are about budgets, government authority, and ideology. Surprisingly absent from the rhetoric and positioning is any serious conversation about the actual state of American health.

Just listening to the politics, one might easily conclude that most Americans enjoy good health, reasonable access to care, and multiple options for high-quality treatment of illness and injury. That's not the case.

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