Health care: The uncivil rights movement – Rochester City Newspaper
The national debate over health-care reform blazed through the summer with fiery town hall speeches and angry protests from both the right and the left. The far-fetched charges were nothing short of astonishing in their sheer absurdity and bitterness.
But wild-eyed fights over health care are nothing new in American politics. The struggle for universal coverage has been going on for more than 100 years, says Theodore Brown, a history professor at the University of Rochester. Brown has chronicled the history of health care in the US. He describes it as a long series of charge-and-retreat scuffles between liberals and conservatives that have led us to where we are now – with a costly, broken system.
Health care: The uncivil rights movement – News Articles – Rochester City Newspaper
