Should Health Care be a Privilege for Only Those Who Can Pay??

I happen to believe that life has a purpose for every birth. Whether life is sacred or not is not a relevant question. But once born every life is relevant and so is the fetal form before birth. Relevance, however is dependent upon sustaining a life quality that enables all humans to live a relevant life. Sickness and physical deformation may be disabling but they must not be allowed to become suicidal or homicidal.If sickness is permitted to worsen because of lack of available treatment this is a form of homicide. If treatment is prevented because someone is unable to pay and the outcome is death this is homicide. A recent Harvard University study shows that at least 45,000 Americans die prematurely (needlessly) because they lack health insurance and do not get life-saving treatment. We, those having adequate health care seem indifferent to this government-sanctioned homicide. No one is prosecuted. No one is incarcerated. Does anyone other than the friends and family members of the uninsured deceased men, women, and children care a hoot? The angry Republican and right wing opposition to some form of guaranteed health care for every American provides an answer. Their answer is NO we do not care--let them die!

How can anyone other than the most heinous selfish human accept such an answer? Yet most of us are at most ambivalent to the idea of government guaranteed heal care for all Americans. Why? Do you really believe that it will cost too much? If that is your reason why allow birth to begin with. Virtually everyone born will become sick during their life time, often critically sick. Without proper treatment we may die. Today, according to the Harvard University independent study we allow about 45,000 to die because they cannot pay for proper treatment. Why don't we only allow wealthy people to have children? Maybe then we will eliminate deaths from lack of insurance.

Hundreds of insurance company executives are paid multi million dollars annually to maximize the billion dollar plus profits of the companies that sell and manage heath care paid for by the insurance they sell. Privately owned medical clinics that distribute bonuses and pay based upon profits also make certain that they do not accept uninsured patients. Millions of Americans are now victims of our profit-centered health care system as they lose their jobs and have their homes foreclosed. Medical insurance evaporates at the same time and they are excluded from care by the profit-driven health care system that prevails in the USA. This is fact not fancy--if you do not pay the profit piper you do not get health care. You may become one of the 45,000 who cannot tell their death-bed story because the are no longer speaking. And if they could would we listen? Should health care be a privilege for only those who can pay?