Dear Governor Perry (and a whole lot of other people): The issue is not whether some of the top, most exemplary medical care is available in the United States (or Texas), the issue is whether ordinary people can get access to necessary medical care short of crashing an emergency room when the kid's fever spikes over 104 degrees.
In other words, it's not about Health Care Reform, it's about Health Care Coverage Reform.
I mean, it's great that those who can afford it can get top-knotch medical care. But that's like saying those who can afford it can get the best culinary delights in the world. The real question that our society needs to consider (still, sadly) is whether those who are sick can get care (and those who are hungry can get food).
That's not anti-American Commie Muslim Atheist Kenyan Pinkoism, That's straight out of the Bible (http://wist.info/bible/11320/).
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Yeah, what they don't understand is we already ration health care in this country.
We ration it with dollars.
Which is what the free market system is, a rationing scheme in that it allocates scarce resources. Or so says Adam Smith, but what would he know?
Anyone who fears a government bureaucrat doling out benefits more than a private for-profit insurance bureaucrat doing the same has never dealt with the latter.
Yeah, I wrote about that in '09:
http://www.halobrien.com/2009/07/28/how-opponents-of-the-public-option-view-the-world/
It holds up remarkably well. OK, not the spelling (I need to fix that…)