Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Healthcare
Psychopathology. Observing the furor of the nation's conservatives over the Supreme Court's ruling on the constitutionality of the Obama healthcare law, one takes comfort in remembering that the law should cover mental health services. In comparison with other parts of the world, the draconian, inequitable and inhumane health care system we have had until now is clearly insane. Speak to people who live in Europe where national single-payer healthcare is considered a right and you will hear expressions of utter disbelief that in the United States -- the richest country in the world -- a major political party and its candidate for president are fighting to preserve a system that grants privately owned, profit making insurance companies the primary right to make critical life and death decisions. Healthcare reformers need to do a better job at attacking the false premise promulgated by the GOP that "Obamacare" is socialized medicine, a "government takeover&quo