Anything associated with profit is presumed to be evil. My first question in health care discussions with my more liberal friends is: You have to send a package that must be delivered tomorrow. Who do you choose - UPS, FedEx or US Postal Service?

If you wouldn't trust your package to the government, why would you trust your life with it?

Because that evil Private Health Insurance Industry allows Canadian women to give birth to identical quadruplets in Great Falls, Montana because the wonderful Public Health Insurance Industry (the Canadian Government) can't handle it.

You know, Great Falls, Montana which has a population of 56,000 people and a total of 1 Starbucks.

If they are going to Great Falls, Montana then our bench is pretty darn deep.

I don't, as a matter of course, read the links OJ provides .. but dudes, you gotta read Barbara E's article in its entirety ...

this is moonbattery of a sublime nature..

I wish to extend my remarks:

Barbara:

'And what about the two to three million insurance industry employees whose sole job it is to turn down claims? Well, I have a plan for them: It’s called unemployment. What country in its right mind would pay millions of people to deny other people health care?'

Barb believes this because she read it in a column by Paul Krugman..(um. OK.)

as it happens I work in the insurance business and
trust me, insurance claims adjusters are not, and cannot be, by the ethics of the industry, paid to 'deny claims'

this chick is lost in space.