Since the Clinton health plan died in late 1994, though, the networks stopped their health care lobbying campaign. On the February 17 episode, Tommy Wilmette, a hospital admnistrator played by Ron Silver, goes to Washington with his ex-wife Kate to lobby for KidCare. 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 marketplace may be efficient, but it is amoral. The system is sick, and it is killing us. But as the Cato Institute's Michael Tanner and Naomi Lopez pointed out in last month's Media-Nomics , three million of the ten million children counted by Senator Kennedy are eligible for Medicaid, but aren't enrolled. Others are already cared for in numerous federal, state, and local government programs. Needless to say, Chicago Hope didn't invite a conservative senator on the show to provide these statistics or to argue that simply changing the tax treatment of health care would expand the number of insured parents and children.