Thank you for your input in the Ken Blankenship Facebook debate. If we reduce the cost of health care for all Americans, we reduce the cost of government entitlement programs like medicare and medicaid.
Oh yeah, and I misspoke about the 17% that we currently earmark in the economy for health care. That figure doesn't cover everyone with insurance. Currently almost 15% of all Americans do not have health insurance and a disproportionate number of those are children. The number of uninsured/uncovered is part of the burden of health care at least with respect to hospitals. Hospitals are forced to offset this burden by charging more for all their services. The health insurance companies have to pay more, so the premiums go up. Then we are left with more people who can't afford to get their foot (or leg or heart or colon) in the door, so they go to the emergency room and the process starts all over again ad infinitum.
But most disappointing in all this debate is that there are millions of Americans that can look at the number of people dying and becoming disabled for lack of health care and can walk away completely unmoved. This selfishness that has crept into our culture like a cancer needs to be cleansed from the body politic. Shame on us all that we allow these voices to drown out common decency. I am dying on the road to Jericho and I need my Matthew 25.
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