Times and characters that they are, a comical and frustratingly farcical debate is raging in the US over Healthcare reform. Today whilst germanely (is that a proper use?) listening to a podcast of Irish History in which the topic is Health Care Reform in the 1940's and 1950's, I was struck by the parallels. Despite inadequate care and a high infant mortality rate the Irish Catholic Church's ArchBishop McQuaid (not of the Dennis type) abhorently opposed a 1950 government health proposal called 'The Mother and Child Scheme' to give free maternity care for all mothers and free healthcare for all children up to the age of 16, regardless of income. Wait a minute buster, I thought the Catholic Church would support such a system, well not so, they controlled all the hospitals in the relatively new Free State. Read on. The political meanderings and arguments against the reform cast a deja-vu over todays US debate. So long ago so forgotten, so many false arguments, so many obfuscations. So much B.S.
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