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If you can afford health care...you deserve it. If I can't, I don't want a government to force you to pay for it.



With or without a national health plan YOU, ME, and everyone else in the U.S. is paying for the ability to deliver health care to those who can afford to receive it. For example, as the recipient of a Medical Education at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, I can tell you that only a small portion of the school's monetary resources to educate me came from the tuition that I paid to it. The rest came from Federal and State tax money because the government in its wisdom realizes that without a given ratio of physicians to population, the manpower necessary is not there to provide adequately for even those with the means to purchase health care. This means that if you yourself can not afford health care, you are funding the education of the providers to sell health care to those who can.

How about all of the state and federally funded research that is the basis for the technology to provide state of the art medical care to those with the ability to pay? How about we simpy say that if health care is a commodity that goes only to those with the ability to pay that we simply cut off ALL PUBLIC FUNDING of medical research, MEDICAL EDUCATION, etc and let those with the ability to pay fund it all? The reason is because it won't work. It requires a directed effort to coordinate such an important effort. But.....don't pretend that health care is just another simple commodity for sale in the market place because it is not and don't pretend that everyone then doesn't have a financial stake in it because everyone's tax money goes into it to make it work and if that tax money were pulled out the whole system would collapse.

Keith
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