.
from Health Care Reform Needs an Action Hero by Amy Goodman
America 2009. Eighteen thousand people have died in one year, an average of almost 50 a day. Who’s taking them out? . . . It’s lack of adequate health care. So maybe the president’s solution isn’t Jack Bauer, but rather the actor who plays him. . . .Sutherland is the grandson of the late Tommy Douglas, the pioneering Canadian politician who is credited with creating the modern Canadian health care system. . . .
At a protest in 2000 against efforts to roll back the Medicare system in the province of Alberta, Kiefer Sutherland defended Canada’s public, single-payer system:
“Private health care does not work. America is trying to change their system. It’s too expensive to get comprehensive medical care in the U.S. Why on earth are we going to follow their system here? I consider it a humanitarian issue. This is an issue about what is right and wrong, what is decent and what is not.”
Filed under: Healthcare, international politics, US Politics Tagged: | kiefer sutherland
Leave a Reply