Learn.Speak.Act. - MIKE-E Video (long version)

The American Cancer Society has partnered with international recording artist and poet, Michael "MIKE-E" Ellison to produce this public service announcement. With 24 percent of African Americans living below the poverty line, and 21 percent lacking health insurance, this high-energy, hard-hitting video draws attention to the need for quality, affordable health care for all Americans. Currently, 47 million people in America are without health insurance and millions more have inadequate health coverage, and may be just one illness, injury or missed paycheck away from financial ruin.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• health
• care
• system
• cancer
• law
• insurance
• MIKE-E
• poet
• poetry
• American
• Cancer
• Society
• African
• insured

[BmMaXXimuS]

what happened to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? i think healthcare falls under 'life' and therefore is a right.

[collateral187]

Perhaps in your country

[mfgsolutions]

Health insurance for everyone is great but how about affordable health CARE. Insurance for everyone is just another layer of costs. The health care system is broken and needs to be fixed FIRST.

[WuergWuerg]

And that is why medical schools have largely abandoned the Hippocratic oath as a requirement for that reason since it is in fact a philosophical code which harnesses medical practice with morality and altruism. Not that doctors have ever really followed the code to the letter in recent history anyway.

[WuergWuerg]

Opponents of universal health care worry too much about the arcane semantics about whether it's a "right" or "privilege". It's a good idea with broad economic benefit. The world wide track record for the cost efficiency of universal health care has been verified for over 50 years now, with the U.S. cost to benefit consistently shrinking relative to other countries during that period, not to mention increasing numbers of people falling out from under its aegis.

[affr0a55au1t]

people who can't afford it don't get it. what's so hard to understand? our healthcare is not socialized, it's privatized. and in general, people are not altruistic.

[kldickson1]

... affr0a55au1t, prove it.

[chuckboyle]

health Care, Heal Care, Care!

If you don't Care.n

[affr0a55au1t]

Healthcare is a privilege, not a right.