The rational and the gut
Not convinced we need national healthcare? If you want to read a well-reasoned, rational essay debunking the main myths about healthcare around the world, read this article by T.R. Reid of the Washington Post. Read it, especially his concluding argument--that the United States really doesn't have the best healthcare system in the world. Not by far. You've been misled.
If you still aren't convinced we need national healthcare, go to the web page of Channel 21 in Harrisburg, Pa., and listen to their investigative stories about a true outrage, a local company, Turbine Airfoil Division, that allegedly was taking employee health insurance payments and spending them on something else. One employee's cancer treatment was cancelled as a result, and he's dead now. The comments on the Channel 21 story are heart-rending. If even half of this is true, the Texas-based owner of this company should go to prison. Texas...why am I not surprised?
This story may come as a surprise to Harrisburg residents, depending on what their usual source of news is. I commend Channel 21 for digging into this story and sticking with it.