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Actually that was part of it, but the whole is, I believe we need universal healthcare. Kutulu would not be in his situation if that were the case.

I see it this way:

1) we have an industry that's JOB is to better mankind through medicine.

2) That industry does so for a profit. (Fair enough, doctors deserve to make a good living)

3) Insurance companies run the industry to where they can dictate who gets what treatments, who gets what medicines, who pays what and in some cases who will live and who will die.

4) There are far too many without insurance and who cannot pay when they do get service, this affects the bottom line which increases medical prices, which increases insurance prices, and increases government spending on healthcare.

5) This means even more people cannot afford treatments that are needed. So even more people start getting emergency treatments (which is all that is legally deemed necessary to people without insurance).

6) This takes preventative medicine (regular checkups for example) out of the picture so that someone who may have a treatable illness gets sicker to the point they can no longer work

7) which increases more government payouts in disability

Does anyone see the vicious cycle? How can you argue against allowing men and women the basic right to medical treatment so that they may lead more productive lives?

Right now insurance companies call all the shots, that is wrong.

There is no true market for medicine because doctors are told what to charge by the insurance companies,

those that take non-insureds have to charge them an outrageous price, to cover losses from the insurance companies.

The only people making any money, making any profit are the insurance companies. And when we allow the most basic of human needs to be dictated to us by the bottom line numbers then we no longer can claim to be truly a "humane society" but rather a society driven by greed and willing to let those who are in need die.

Sorry but compassion is very much a needed part of humanity if human life is to adavnce.

I appologize if you took what I was saying as "money to the poor", if that was what you got out of what I said then my rant obviously did not make my true point known. Hopefully this clears things up.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"