If you just want the Cliff Notes version of this anti-American bullshit, here ya go:
"The idea that every life is infinitely precious and therefore everyone deserves the same kind of optimal medical care is a fine religious sentiment and moral ideal. As political and economic policy, it is vainglorious delusion. Rich and educated people not only receive better goods and services in all areas of life than do poor and uneducated people, they also tend to take better care of themselves and their possessions, which in turn leads to better health. The first requirement for better health care for all is not equal health care for everyone but educational and economic advancement for everyone.Our national conversation about curbing the cost of health care is crippled by the vocabulary in which we conduct it. We must stop talking about "health care" as if it were some kind of collective public service, like fire protection, provided equally to everyone who needs it. No government can provide the same high quality body repair services to everyone. Not all doctors are equally good physicians, and not all sick persons are equally good patients.
If we persevere in our quixotic quest for a fetishized medical equality we will sacrifice personal freedom as its price."
It is written by a psychiatrist that doesn't believe in mental illness. Basically, it's like having a Jehovah's Witness working at the blood bank, or George Bush having any type of job. Complete (oxy)moron.
Basically, and this is an argument my mother-in-law picked up somewhere, for some reason, if we can't give all Americans the same health care the top 1% of the top 1% of Americans get, we should not try to give anyone access to health care.
Look, there will always be wealthy folks who have advantage. As long as they aren't trying to screw the rest of us out of something, let them have it. And to be honest, why *isn't* health care a right in this country? We give it to both soldiers and senators for serving us, so why *not* to the tax-paying citizens who pay those salaries?
Frankly, like I said earlier, it's about evil bastards looking to make a dime on the backs of sick people. And it's high time to cut them from their addiction.
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