But back to the show's hysteria. We need to disconnect profit from care. There should be no profit from the pain and misfortune of others. No profit from sick children. No profit from the dying.
Health care is a right, just like education is, just like equal justice under law.
The system is sick and it is killing us. That night's 11 o'clock newscast on CBS's Washington affiliate, WUSA, noted that Sen. Kennedy wrote his own lines, and that he appeared on the show because Silver asked him to do so. The episode was thoroughly one-sided. No conservative health-care position was stated. Presumably for the sake of bipartisanship, Jack Kemp appeared briefly in another scene - saying hello to Silver's character.