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Thursday 9 July 2009

When it comes to paying for health care, if someone’s taxes need to go up, Americans have a much easier time imagining it being the super-rich who have benefited disproportionately from the massive redistribution of wealth that has occurred over the last 30 years, or the artificially low capital gains rate on those of disproportionate wealth rich who have not only been paying less for speculating than for working but for speculating with our security. And they have a much easier time imagining taxing products such as fast foods and cigarettes that bear a direct relation to the cost of health care in America, and demanding concessions from the industries that have led to the spiraling costs of health care in the first place, most importantly the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries. Drew Westen

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