Reply #10: So we have a corrupt system that is maiming patients

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So, where should we reform the system? Make health care a civil right, and turn it into a not-for-profit industry? There's a case to be made that while health care workers are worth of a wage commensurate with their talent and effort, why should large corporations turn a buck on someone's illness?

Require greater regulation and transparency in the insurance industry? Well, we could go back to the days when insurance companies did nothing but insure people. Now they're "diversified," meaning that they can take premiums and invest them in all sorts of risky places, and the insureds have to pick up the slack when the investments go sour. Of course, if the investments pay off handsomely, premiums still rise because those investments go to pay executive salaries.

No, let's not take anything like that! Let's go after the people who are maimed and killed by doctors due to inattention, negligence, or outright criminal incompetence. That will make the system all better -- punish the people who get injured. They're already hurt and accustomed to a life of deprivation.