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People are ready to say, Yes, we are ready for single-payer health

People are ready to say, Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance. We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations. – Studs Terkel

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Thats why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. Its like a tonic. – Studs Terkel

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We use the word hope perhaps more often than any other word in the vocabulary: I hope its a nice day. Hopefully, youre doing well. So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so. – Studs Terkel

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I think its realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: I despair. The worlds no good. Thats a perverse idealist. Its practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. Thats very realistic. – Studs Terkel

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