A crappy health care system.

If ever there was a need for universal health care, it's now. In tough economic times. When the jobless rate keeps increasing by leaps and bounds. But the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation in the world without universal health care. Yes, a shame. I want every American to have the basic necessities of life. And health care is about as basic as it gets. Yet, we have nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance. And that number will increase as more people lose their jobs. This is America, folks. One of the wealthier countries in the world. Wealthy because 1 percent of the population has an overwhelming proportion of the wealth. Meanwhile, we have hordes of people living in poverty. And without jobs, too. At least, let's see to it that everyone is guaranteed health care. Whether they can afford it or not. The Germans, the French, the Italians, the British, the Canadians -- well, they're all ahead of us. They have universal health care. And what do we have? A crappy health care system. --Jim Broede