The urgent need for health care reform

Should Congress pass health care reform legislation? Readers of this blog know where I stand on the subject: the No. 1 priority of any government is protecting their citizens and that includes protecting them from sickness. Here's another credible source making a sound case for passage of health care reform legislation. My favorite paragraph from the article is:

"The fact that 46 million people in this country have no health insurance should be intolerable. Every other major industrial country guarantees health coverage to its citizens, yet the United States, the richest of them all, does not."

Here's another paragraph from the story that needs to be highlighted:

"The American Cancer Society now says the greatest obstacle to reducing cancer deaths is lack of health insurance. It is so persuaded of that fact that two years ago, instead of promoting its antismoking campaign or publicizing the need for cancer screening, it devoted its entire advertising budget (emphasis mine) to the problem of inadequate health insurance coverage."