Why won’t Social Darwinism just die?
Although the 2008 presidential election is a year and a half away, universal health care coverage has already risen to the top of the domestic agenda in the eyes of a majority of American citizens. According to a March 2, 2007 article in the New York Times, a recent NYTimes/CBS poll found that an “overwhelming” majority of those polled indicated that the current health care system in the U.S. needs a “fundamental change or total reorganization.” 64% believes that the government should guarantee health insurance for all, 27 percent believes that it should not (remarkably, this number has changed since the early 1990s when 56% believed the government should guarantee health insurance for all, and 38% did not). 25% of the pollees with insurance claimed that a household member had foregone treatment or testing because insurance would not cover it as compard to 60% without insurance (foregoing treatment due to the out-of-pocket cost). Amazingly, 60% (including 62% of independents and 42% of
