How is it possible to even compare the two?

Senator Harkins thinks passing Health Care reform is the same as desegregation and the Civil Rights bill. That is just a horrible comparison.

The fight for health reform is akin to the fight for desegregation and other civil rights, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said Thursday.

"We don't allow segregation on the basis of race," Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said at the White House healthcare summit.

"And yet we still allow segregation today in America on the basis of your health," Harkin added. "Why should we allow that to happen?"

Harkin has been one of the most vociferous proponents of healthcare reform in the Senate, and has been a top proponent of the public option. (He did concede in recent days, though, that a measure establishing a government-run health plan was unlikely to pass.)

He is doing a disservice to what the blacks had to go through back then. The NCAAP should be going after Harkin. I'm not even sure how they are even similar in the least.

No one in America is denied health care. If anyone is sick, hurt, dieing or anything they can go to the emergency room. It is illegal for the ER to turn anyone down. It's nothing like before the Civil Rights were blacks weren't allowed in white only schools or white only bathrooms.

Harkin is just a fear mongerer. He is trying to scare people into Health Care reform that will bankrupt our country.