Healthcare is a service that will be more accessible and affordable under public control, the way it works on all countries that have a better healthcare system than ours. Health insurance as it stands in our country today is borderline criminal extortion. Are you saying rich people with poor health deserve to live, while poor people (although, frankly, these people aren't poor) with poor health deserve to die?

If private insurance worked the way it is advertised by the opponents of public health care, this family would not have been saddled with that debt. The whole point of insurance is to cover exceptions/crises. However, the caps on a maximum annual benefit effectively place a limit on the value of a person's life. Once that threshold has been met, in the eyes of the insurer, that person is no longer worth preserving. I should never have jumped in here. It is too emotionally draining. The disgusting lack of basic respect for human welfare that runs rampant on this board is too much for me. I'm out.

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phobicsquirrel:

ummm milk it..