I was sick…

I felt this expla­na­tion of the U.S. health care debate was fairly objec­tive; though, I admit that accord­ing to Wikipedia, the pub­lisher leans left.

Regard­less, I have a few thoughts on health care:

• pri­vate insur­ance com­pa­nies seek to max­i­mize prof­its at employ­ers’ expense;
• employ­ers seek to max­i­mize prof­its at employ­ees’ expense;
• doc­tors seek to max­i­mize prof­its at everyone’s expense;
• gov­ern­ment is going broke try­ing to max­i­mize health care for peo­ple who will not or can­not pro­vide insur­ance for themselves;
• even by a truly con­ser­v­a­tive esti­mate, 20 mil­lion Amer­i­can cit­i­zens can­not afford health insur­ance, and for between 8 and 14 mil­lion Amer­i­can cit­i­zens, that is a chronic situation.

I’m reminded of the words of the Gospel (it’s Lent, after all):

I was hun­gry and you gave me some­thing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me some­thing to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.

Those words may not mean a lot to most of the looney left, but a good chunk of the neo­con­ser­v­a­tive Chris­t­ian right who so vehe­mently oppose any­thing leg­is­la­tion that might help a brother out will cer­tainly get it.

And to my Jew­ish friends, a belated Happy Purim.