Bob McCarty Writes

In the beginning of her speech, Ethel Long Scott didn’t present herself as the most-polished of the six speakers who addressed attendees during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis.  She did, however, come off as the loudest, most-outspoken and most-victimized liberal granted access to a microphone.

Scott, executive director of the Oakland, Calif.-based Women’s Economic Agenda Project, seemed to get past early-speech jitters and find her pace at about the point when she pinned the political “tail” on who — or, more precisely, what — is to blame for all of her woes.

“It’s not the undocumented workers or the uninsured who are causing the problem, but, in fact, (it’s) this rotting, decaying capitalist system, and we need to call it like it is,” she barked.  “The reality is, what Congress is contemplating won’t do one damn thing to help the 14,000 brothers and sisters who are losing their health insurance every day.”

And she thinks single-payer will?  Puh-leeze!

To see the rest of what Scott had to share at the single-payer conference, watch the video below which I shot as the only journalist in attendance.

To see and hear what other conference speakers had to say, click here.

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