Welcome to the blog dedicated to the Senate candidacy of Congressman Peter Deutsch. Peter, as you know, is the hard-charging Democrat from Broward who's on a mission to see that Florida gets its fair share of federal tax dollars; that Medicare offers a prescription drug benefit that helps seniors, not pharmaceutical companies; and that (gasp!) all Americans have health insurance.
I have to admit that, at first, I didn't find the "Florida's fair share" issue that compelling. Not with the Bush administration doing such a thorough job of lying to the American people about Iraq, tax cuts, their environmental record, jobs and the deficit. But when you take a look at the numbers (peterforflorida.com/fairshare) you'll see that things really are out of whack. And I like that Peter is the only candidate talking about doing something about it.
I also like that he has the balls to call for universal health care. Call me crazy, but this patchwork of competing health plans that we struggle with -- leaving 44 million with no insurance at all -- is an embarrassment to the wealthiest nation on the planet. And the idea that re-buying American-made drugs from Canada is a solution just shows how desperate the situation is. We have to go to another country to get a better price on drugs we made? That's crazy.
Or maybe that's just life in Bush's America.
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