America’s Health-Care Divide
A country’s success – whether measured by the glory of its leaders, the expansion of its territory, the security of its borders, or the well-being of its population – rests on the health of its people. But, with US health-care reform set to take effect in 2014, that lesson has been lost on Republican-controlled states.
BERKELEY – In 1883, the authoritarian imperial government of Prince Otto von Bismarck – who famously declared, “It is not by speeches and majority votes that the great issues of our time will be decided…but by blood and iron” – established national health insurance for Germany.