Margaret Flowers, M.D: Why We Risked Arrest for Single-Payer Health Care
“The people seated at the table represented the corporate interests: private health insurers and big business and those who support their agenda…These interests profit greatly from the current health care industry and do not want changes that will hurt their large, personal pocketbooks. And so, we have entered a new phase in the movement for health care as a human right: acts of civil disobedience… History has shown that in order to gain human rights, we must be willing to speak out and risk arrest. We must engage in actions that expose corporate fraud and corruption… And that is why the eight of us, knowledgeable health care advocates and providers, most of us parents, some of us grandparents, spoke out one-by-one at the Senate Finance Committee” – Flowers .. read more
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RIGHT ON;
TRUTH WAS SPOKEN & ACTION WAS TAKEN…. these patriots & persons with heart & concern for their fellow mam/woman were willing to sacrifice FREEDOM & FINANCES in a non-selfish way….
…..TRUE SONs & DAUGHTERs OF LIBERTY….
where R U ???
HOW MANY OF US ARE WILLING TO STAND UP FOR TRUTH & JUSTICE ???
HOW DID THE LIKES OF HITLER TAKE PLACE ???
“Evil persists because good men & women say nothing & do nothing against evil/corruption”
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