The New Republic magazine calls for national health care:
Over the last 25 years, liberalism has lost both its good name and its sway over politics. But it is liberalism's loss of imagination that is most disheartening. Since President Clinton's health care plan unraveled in 1994--a debacle that this magazine, regrettably, abetted--liberals have grown chastened and confused, afraid to think big ideas. Such reticence had its proper time and place; large-scale political and substantive failures demand introspection, not to mention humility. But it is time to be ambitious again. And the place to begin is the very spot where liberalism left off a decade ago: Guaranteeing every American citizen access to affordable, high-quality medical care.
But,if this isn't enough the New Republic has great praise for the high unemployment country called France:
And the French, whose system the World Health Organization recently declared the planet's best, have more hospital beds. They get more doctor visits, too, perhaps because their access to physicians is nearly unfettered--a privilege even most middle-class Americans surrendered with the spread of managed care.
Amazing,the French limit the visits of all sorts of things because the health care system wants it that way.The New Republic is a statist publication to the core.Warfare and welfare that's the New Republic way.What if the health care workers want to go on strike? Anyway,it appears the New Republic is returning to its' socialist roots.In 1932,the New Republic endorsed socialist Norman Thomas for President.
