This Is Why We Won't Get Single Payer Health Care

posted by gyma

Because the majority of our elected officals can afford this type of health care, they don't really see the need for providing reasonable health care for us schlubs:

The bed linens were by Frette, Italian purveyors of high-thread-count sheets to popes and princes. The bathroom gleamed with polished marble. Huge windows displayed panoramic East River views. And in the hush of her $2,400 suite, a man in a black vest and tie proffered an elaborate menu and told her, “I’ll be your butler.” It was Greenberg 14 South, the elite wing on the new penthouse floor of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital.

Waterfalls, grand pianos, Bose stereos, mushroom risotto with heirloom tomatoes. Well you get the idea.