HEALTH CARE HELL

摘要

During the past few months, I of-ten drew strength from a poem taped to my desk in Washington and framed on the wall of my home office in Menominee, Mich. "Bullfight critics ranked in rows," it begins, "Crowd the enormous plaza full/But only one is there who knows/ And he's the man who fights the bull."Written by a Spanish matador, the poem really resonated with me last fall as I wrestled with two longstanding personal convictions-that health care is a national right, and that federal dollars should not be used to pay for abortion-thrown into conflict by a universal-insurance bill that would cover abortion.