Originally Posted by BFT3K

Private for-profit health care is out to make money. It is business. It is out to make as much money as it can, to satisfy it's shareholders, at the cost of the average Joe.

Without competition, and without restraints, these powers are not interested in you....

If they are allowed to drop sick people to save a buck, they will.

If they are allowed to double or triple their rates every year, they will.

If they are allowed to deny clients for any reason whatsoever, they will.

I can go on, but you get the idea.

In the end, healthcare should be a right, and if government has any purpose at all, it is to protect it's people,and this includes the health of its people.

I don't hear guys like you bitching about the defense budget, which blows all other government budgets out of the water.

Too bad the big corps have managed to brainwash so many, and convince them to vote and fight against their own best interests.