Desperate Actions For Health Care?

They are doing their best to stop universal affordable health care. What do we have to do, stop traffic on all the freeways? Cover ourselves with maple syrup and give politicians big hugs? Incidentally, I'm all in for the maple syrup. I recommend Vermont light amber grade A...it forms an airy froth when playfully whipped, and is not only a gustatory sensation, but also a tactile symphony on the tongue. It has that certain "je ne sais quoi."

But I digress. The insurance companies are already rationing care by denying coverage, terminating policies and screening out pre-existing conditions. That's the most cruel form of rationing; one run by nothing but some corporate executive's bottom line. It's almost unbelievable that a human being would make those decisions, chalk them up to "business" and then go home and play with his or her children.

I am constantly amazed by the people who accept the multiple reasons that somebody can be excluded from having health insurance as just an acceptable business practice rather than an absolute human rights violation. And that is why it should not be run by a profit-motivated business that answers to shareholders. While we're at it, why don't we open concentration camps for the homeless and the people who whine about not being insured, and assign them to a company with a profit motive? Maybe then some of them will actually get health care.

By the way, Texas has the nation's highest percentage of uninsured--25 percent.