The US House needs leadership and the veterans need health care that works. Former Secretary Powell should run for a US House seat and bring sanity back to veterans and the country. Run on Single Payer Health Care for veterans.
I never meant anything more in my life.
December 9, 2013
By Alex Lazar
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell (click here) has waded into the health care debate with a broad endorsement of the kind of universal health plan found in Europe, Canada and South Korea.
"I am not an expert in health care, or Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, or however you choose to describe it, but I do know this: I have benefited from that kind of universal health care in my 55 years of public life," Powell said, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, last week at an annual "survivors celebration breakfast" in Seattle for those who, like Powell, have battled prostate cancer. "And I don't see why we can't do what Europe is doing, what Canada is doing, what Korea is doing, what all these other places are doing."
Europe, Canada and Korea all have a "single-payer" system, in which the government pays for the costs of health care.
Some Democrats who strongly advocated for, and failed to get, a single-payer system in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, still believe the current law doesn't go far enough to reform the US health system....
I don't think the former Secretary of State annoys them any more than life itself annoys them. He would be great.
Run, Colin, run. You'll win. It will be fun, both the campaign and your leadership. Do calisthenics every morning on the lawn in front of the Capital. You'll have a crowd in no time.
October 2, 2015
...When asked at the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday (click here)
if he still considers himself a Republican, Powell said, “Yes, I’m still a Republican”, and highlighted his votes for “five presidents in a row who were Republican”, as well as his work for President Ronald Reagan and former Sen.
“I continue to be a Republican because it annoys them”, Powell told host Walter Isaacson.
The areas the former Secretary of State doesn’t see eye-to-eye with the GOP platform are climate change, immigration and education policy....
I never meant anything more in my life.
December 9, 2013
By Alex Lazar
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell (click here) has waded into the health care debate with a broad endorsement of the kind of universal health plan found in Europe, Canada and South Korea.
"I am not an expert in health care, or Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, or however you choose to describe it, but I do know this: I have benefited from that kind of universal health care in my 55 years of public life," Powell said, according to the Puget Sound Business Journal, last week at an annual "survivors celebration breakfast" in Seattle for those who, like Powell, have battled prostate cancer. "And I don't see why we can't do what Europe is doing, what Canada is doing, what Korea is doing, what all these other places are doing."
Europe, Canada and Korea all have a "single-payer" system, in which the government pays for the costs of health care.
Some Democrats who strongly advocated for, and failed to get, a single-payer system in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, still believe the current law doesn't go far enough to reform the US health system....
I don't think the former Secretary of State annoys them any more than life itself annoys them. He would be great.
Run, Colin, run. You'll win. It will be fun, both the campaign and your leadership. Do calisthenics every morning on the lawn in front of the Capital. You'll have a crowd in no time.
October 2, 2015
...When asked at the Washington Ideas Forum Wednesday (click here)
if he still considers himself a Republican, Powell said, “Yes, I’m still a Republican”, and highlighted his votes for “five presidents in a row who were Republican”, as well as his work for President Ronald Reagan and former Sen.
“I continue to be a Republican because it annoys them”, Powell told host Walter Isaacson.
The areas the former Secretary of State doesn’t see eye-to-eye with the GOP platform are climate change, immigration and education policy....
