Healthcare-Now Nat'l Strategy Conf (4 of 6) Ethel Long Scott

In the beginning of her speech, Ethel Long Scott didnt present herself as the most-polished of the six speakers who addressed attendees during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis. She did, however, come off as the loudest, most-outspoken and most-victimized liberal granted access to a microphone.

Scott, executive director of the Oakland, Calif.-based Womens Economic Agenda Project, seemed to get past early-speech jitters and find her pace at about the point when she pinned the political tail on who -- or, more precisely, what -- is to blame for all of her woes.

Its not the undocumented workers or the uninsured who are causing the problem, but, in fact, (its) this rotting, decaying capitalist system, and we need to call it like it is, she barked. The reality is, what Congress is contemplating wont do one damn thing to help the 14,000 brothers and sisters who are losing their health insurance every day.

And she thinks single-payer will? Puh-leeze!

Read more about her liberal ideology at http://bobmccarty.com.

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