Reply #2: ER problems

[Doctor Panacea]

I do not have to watch the Nightline program because, as a physician, I am all too familiar with the problem. The insurance companies, which are criminal by nature, have orchestrated a gradual erosion of health benefits for people with "insurance."

This, of course, does not even address the issue of the 45 million people without health "insurance."

It is time for everyone to have health coverage. Notice that I did not say "insurance," which is the wrong concept. The proper word should be "coverage." Insurance is a concept that is appropriate for something like your car or your house. Your car might not get wrecked, and your house almost certainly will not burn down. Houses and cars are insurable items; health is not. Health care is a right of everyone in a civilized society.

But in a society run by ChimpCo, big business will do everything it can to deny this basic right to the citizens of the nation.