"What's more important for citizens to notice is that a 2500 page bill got turned into a law without any accurate, thorough summary of it appearing in any media where any of us could really follow it and make informed judgements. I think the fact that it appeared in 2500 pages without an English language 5 page summary from our government, you know....shows how the people are being shut out of the deliberative process."
"And I guess I also have to say that, you know, as a liberal by heritage, my instinct to support single payer (health care) or government solutions for things like health care. But when your government has been taken over by the medical lobby, the insurance lobby, and various other special interests that are not sick people, it doesn't necessarily mean that single payer (health care) is going to be in your best interest or that a government solution is gonna be in your best interest....And so I'm now kind of witholding judgement until I know more about it and obviously I want, you know, Americans to have health insurance, but I'm not persuaded yet that this bill is the kind of thing we see in Northern Europe where the government has literally made sure everyone gets health care."
This whole link is a great conversation with her. The health care conversation beings at the end, around 43:42.
We need more people like Naomi Wolf on both the left & the right who are willing to take an honest and critical look at what politicians actually do, not just at what they say or imply they'll do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T-jtnifFZo
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