Universal Health Care is Near at Hand

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By Richard C. Dillihunt
Guest column
Bangor Daily News
6/25/09
I have been a proponent of universal health care and single payer since retiring from the practice of surgery more than 10 years ago. During this decade I have never waffled on my conviction that our nation should transition to a system in which every citizen has an equal opportunity to obtain their health care from practitioners of their choice.
Further, I am convinced that the for-profit form of health care has morphed into an uncontrolled hierarchy of greed that has escaped from the normal restraints of personal ethics, compassion, empathy and basic unqualified concern for one an other without reservation. I feel that social justice should leap to the forefront of our decisions when an individual — any individual — has a health problem. Accordingly, it is obvious that universal health care has my support, and it is not surprising that polls of physicians, nurses and the general population concur.
Now, we have arrived at a point in the history of our nation where it is reasonable to say that universal health care is near at hand, and after trying practically everything else, the vast majority are convinced that a reform has arrived. Black, white, […]

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