Yes, it's ironical isn't it, Bruce? It's just like the reaction you would have gotten in the early 1700's by suggesting that there are better ways to run a society than by a hereditary monarchy...or that women should have the right to vote!...or that slavery is unjustifiable...or...

People tend to just conform automatically to the stupidities of the system they grew up in.

The only answer to proper medical coverage for a large population in modern times is socialized medicine, available to all citizens on an equal basis without prejudice or restriction. Who pays for it? Everybody. Just like we all pay to have schools and a police force and a fire department and an armed forces (more socialism).

I have seen a properly socialized medical system...in Cuba. Their main and only problem is that the American embargo keeps them short of needed pharmaceutical and medical supplies. I have also seen a reasonably properly socialized medical system in Canada...not bad...but it's got a few holes in it here and there. Most of western Europe has socialized medical systems.

People who think that's Communism have actually barely done any real thinking at all on the subject. They're as out of touch as people who still think the World is flat.

But they just go on believing what corporate Big Brother tells them...

- LH