Health Care Reform is Part of Reparations for Slavery

At least that's what Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina thinks. Newsbusters has the transcript from an interview with Chris Matthews:

JAMES CLYBURN: Well, I think that Congressman Cohen's resolution that was unanimously passed by the House offered an apology, but it went into talking about how we ought to go about rectifying some of the current effects of that past discrimination. And that's what we're doing today as we roll out this working draft of our health care bill.

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CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, I think reparations make sense. I just wonder if we're ever going to figure out how to do it. Mr. Clyburn, do you have a clear sense of what's the appropriate, if you were the president right now and had the congress 100% behind you, what would you do?

CLYBURN: What I would do is exactly what we're attempting to do with this legislation, energy legislation, health legislation. I would look at ways that we can programatically and with new policy, address these inequities and make concerted efforts to do things that would make up for them and eliminate the disparities. That's what I would do. We're talking about addressing inequities, disparities that exist in the health care in our communities. That's the kind of thing that we ought to be doing.

So, we need to destroy the private health insurance industry because they're a convenient scapegoat for slavery and discrimination. And we need to dramatically increase government debt (and subsequently taxes) to make up for sins of the past.

This has got to be stopped.