Colin Powell Calls for Universal Health Care in U.S.#p2 #tcot

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"Former Secretary of State and longtime Republican Colin Powell is calling for a universal health care solution in the U.S.

"We are a wealthy enough country with the capacity to make sure that every one of our fellow citizens has access to quality health care," he said Thursday at a Seattle fundraiser for prostate cancer. "(Let's show) the rest of the world what our democratic system is all about and how we take care of all of our citizens."

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"I am not an expert in health care, or Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, or however you choose to describe it, but I do know this: I have benefited from that kind of universal health care in my 55 years of public life," Powell said. "And I don't see why we can't do what Europe is doing, what Canada is doing, what Korea is doing, what all these other places are doing.""