Colin Powell: America Needs Socialized Medicine
by Tony Lee 8 Dec 2013, 7:10 AM
PDT
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell believes the United States should have a socialized,
single-payer healthcare system similar to those in Canada
and Europe.
“I think universal health care is
one of the things we should really be focused on, and I hope that will happen,”
Powell reportedly said last week. “Whether it’s Obamacare, or son of Obamacare, I don’t care. As long as we get it
done.”
The Puget Sound Business Journal
reported Powell's remarks at the Prostate Cancer Survivors Celebration
Breakfast at the University of Washington's Cancer Research
Center.
Powell, the Republican who
supported Barack Obama during the last two presidential elections, told the
story about a woman who lives in the countryside that he buys wood from every
year.
"I’ve got about four years
worth of wood out in the back yard. I can’t resist her, and she needs the
money," Powell said, before mentioning that when she came to his door
three weeks ago and he told her that he had no work for her, she asked Powell
to help pay for medical treatment her insurance company would not cover.
Powell said he ended up paying for
the women's treatment and compared her experience to the prompt treatments that
he and his wife received for serious medical issues.
The retired four-star general and
former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff said he thought, "Every country I’ve visited, every developed
country, they have universal health care. They don’t understand why the United
States of America, which uses more health care than just about anybody else,
still (has) 40 million people not properly insured.”
“I am not an expert in health
care, or Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, or however you choose to
describe it, but I do know this: I have benefited from that kind of universal
health care in my 55 years of public life,” Powell said. “And I don’t see why
we can’t do what Europe is doing, what Canada
is doing, what Korea
is doing, what all these other places are doing.”
Colin Powell
Colin
L. Powell was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of State, the chairman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a strategic
limited partner at Kleiner Perkins
Caufield & Byers, and Michael K.
Powell’s father.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Aspen Institute (think tank), the Committee for Economic Development, and the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Henry A. Kissinger is a director at the
Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Elie
Wiesel is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, and a
member of the United States Holocaust
Memorial Council.
Holocaust Experiments (Past
Research)
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Michael K. Powell
is a trustee at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), and Colin L. Powell’s
son.
James S.
Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Lester Crown
was a lifetime trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and is a
member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP for the CGI Group Inc., and
a VP at the Boeing Company.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Commercial Club of Chicago,
Members Directory
Please note: This link for the
members of the Commercial Club of Chicago can no longer be found.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a senior counsel for
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld,
LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Boeing Company.
W. James
McNerney Jr. is the chairman & president & CEO for the Boeing Company,
and a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Michael E. Roach
is the president & CEO for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Conference
Board.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a trustee at the Conference Board (think tank), trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a director at Bayer AG, a director at the American Friends
of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Bayer AG
The Bayer company then became
part of IG Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. During World War II,
the IG Farben used slave labor in factories attached to large slave labor
camps, notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[3] IG
Farben owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[4] a chemical
used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps. After
World War II, the Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an
individual business. The Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven
years in prison during the IG Farben Military Tribunal at Nuremburg, was made
head of the supervisory board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.
Bayer
Corporation is the North American subsidiary for Bayer AG.
Mayer
Brown was the lobby firm for the Bayer
Corporation.
Robert
A. Helman is a partner at Mayer
Brown, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and was an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
William
M. Daley was a partner at Mayer
Brown, the chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
William M. Daley
Professional career
Daley returned to the practice of
law, as a partner with the firm Mayer Brown (then Mayer, Brown & Platt)
from 1993 to 1997.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP is the lobby firm for Bayer
HealthCare.
Bayer HealthCare
is a subsidiary of Bayer AG.
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