Healthcare

Let's ignore the red versus blue and blue versus green and all the other colors of the rainbow. Let's also ignore all the stupid nonsense coming out of news talk shows.

What's at stake seems to be a lot more fundamental.

Is it or is it not the role of Government to protect the life of its citizens. Must the Government protect the "inalienable rights" of man - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Or is such responsibility more fickle and has dependencies on array of variables such as politics, and budgets and costs, and personal gains?

Let's see if we can look at this problem at an even more basic way. Life is fundamentally unpredictable - complexity theory. Tomorrow we can either be hit by the bus, get cancer, both, or neither. In the case of neither, we, humans are conditioned to ignore the perils until either one or both of the above occurs. Now, is it not the role of a stable, evolved society to protect its weak and young? What does it say about our society when we concisely ignore the weak and the young? Are we as a society egotistical, thinking like every other great society before us, that we can do no wrong, strong survive, weak perish, one must accept the law of nature?


Some statistics on the makeup of America, total uninsured by various categories:
http://www.kff.org/uninsured/upload/7451_04_Data_Tables.pdf

http://facts.kff.org/chartbooks/State Variation and Health Reform.pdf