What the Health Care Debate Is About

I don't link to Bill Moyers anywhere near as often as I should.

If you're wondering why health care reform is such a problem, this 3-minute video essay by Moyers gives some hints.

The South Carolina senator who hasn't been "hiking the Appalachian Trail" pronounced last week that "If we're able to stop Obama on [health care], it will be his Waterloo. It will break him." And a Republican doesn't need a better reason to make sure that millions of Americans don't get health care at a reasonable cost. They're the political party with "values", remember.

Today Obama had a response:



The Obama video link is through Talking Points Memo. Did you catch the blooper?