Reply #10: If people could see that this is happening everywhere, to veterans and

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non-veterans alike, to people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, to people unable to come up with a co-pay or cover a donut hole, maybe they would realize that Bush's tax refunds equal euthanasia by neglect. What could be a greater admission of total failure of the health care system for everyone save the well-insured and wealthy than the VA's effort to enable vets to buy $4.00 prescriptions at Wal-Mart? Invest in the health of all Americans, especially the chronically ill, and we will save billions of dollars and many precious lives. The big focus and push to "contain" health care costs benefits corporations, insurance companies, and stockholders by targeting selected corrupt businesses that bilk reimbursement dollars from the government - but not the corrupt businesses that are also Republican donors.

The solution is simple: Fund comprehensive health care for all in the US, and fine or eliminate those businesses that exist solely to collect dollars that should be going to health care providers with integrity. While people suffer and die needlessly, Republican extremists are still trying to portray all health care expenditures as the trillion dollar baby that needs to be drowned in the bathtub. Newt Gingrich will run for President in 2008 based on his "health care" solutions. Other Republicans will wail and rail about the outrageous cost of health care, and suggest cutting spending as a generic solution to fix America. Rich and well connected people won't die - we will. And it will be sooner rather than later.