00ec580446f86f380e062228_pa3495c.jpg Paul Lachine

America’s Health-Care Divide

A country’s success – whether measured by the glory of its leaders, the expansion of its territory, the security of its borders, or the well-being of its population – rests on the health of its people. But, with US health-care reform set to take effect in 2014, that lesson has been lost on Republican-controlled states.

BERKELEY – In 1883, the authoritarian imperial government of Prince Otto von Bismarck – who famously declared, “It is not by speeches and majority votes that the great issues of our time will be decided…but by blood and iron” – established national health insurance for Germany.

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