Worried about health care being rationed? Guess what? It already is. Has your insurance company turned down a procedure ordered by your doctor? That’s rationing. Been told you can’t have a procedure you need unless you come up with more money than you make in a year? That’s rationing. Just can’t get insurance because it’s too expensive? That’s rationing, too.
Now, we have health care rationing designed to sustain insurance company profits and executive bonuses. Will a public health care option lead to rationing? Maybe it will and maybe it won’t. But if it does, the values behind the rationing will make very good health care accessible to all of us.
Which values do you want underlying your health care? The ones that put a third Mercedes in some insurance executive’s garage or the ones that put health care in everyone’s reach?
Mark D. Katz
Kansas City
Smarter than You
Well than your book must be missing half of its pages. Because most of the entire bible is about, sheep, smug, stupid, killing, murder, rape, genocide, sodomy, vengence, evil, lying, brutality, etc....
"Truly, I say to you, it will be hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!"
24 And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
24 Jesus looking at him said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!
24 Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
It wasn't me who said thsese words, it was the man whom who say is king and lord. So wasting billions of dollars isn't of any concern to JC as long the people are taken care of. If you can't see that, then you really are a hypocryte
Posted by: ksskidude | August 11, 2009 at 08:10 AM
Ksssssssssssssssssed by an angel seems to be the arbiter of all things Christian. That's not a very Christian attitude to take, but I'll forgive him this trespass.
Wasting billions of dollars for inferior health care based on inflated claims of need certainly may be in your bible, Kss. Fortunately, my King James version seems to be missing the books of Sheep, Smug and Stupid that you quote from.
Posted by: Smarter Than You | August 10, 2009 at 04:33 PM
How sad it is to me that we are supposedly a nation of christians. Yet we have more so-called christians who donm't want to help or pay for anyone else to receive health care. If your a christian you should be ashamed of yourself. Not only are you a hypocryte, you're a liar as well.
There is nothing you can say to canovince me otherwise. I have read the bible cover to cover, and studied the words of Jesus Christ.
Not to help and give all that you can goes agaisndt the very foundation of being a christian; the only real conclusion that one can come to is that your not christians, you don't beleive that what Jesus said was truth. Because if you did, universal health care would be for everyone, not for those who can afford it, or for those that are only American citizens.
What a joke you are, and how ashmaed you should be.
Posted by: ksskidude | August 10, 2009 at 03:08 PM
“That’s rationing. That’s rationing. That’s rationing, too.” - Mark D. Katz
Main Entry: ration
Function: transitive verb
supply with or put on rations
2 a : to distribute as rations —often used with out b : to distribute equitably c : to use sparingly
Once aging with the illogical all inclusive definitions. First everything was socialism and now everything is rationing. No it’s not Mark. Not one example you gave fits the definition of rationing.
“……. or the ones that put health care in everyone’s reach?” - Mark D. Katz
Oh, I see, the basis of your definition of “rationing” is because you want the government not money deciding who has “access” to services. It’s unfortunate that people like Mark are not honest enough to admit that since they believe they do not have access to a sure thing (money) they want a chance inside a lottery (rationing). That’s an honest opinion I could politely ignore as long as Mark and his ilk would just leave the mandatory this and that out of it. Leave me, my family, my employer and more of my tax money alone.
Posted by: GCYL | August 10, 2009 at 06:28 AM
Mark D. Katz has been reported to flag@whitehouse.gov.
You will report for re-education on Labor Day.
Posted by: Roger Lambert | August 09, 2009 at 11:05 PM