Reply #93: Your problem seems to be that you view health care as a commodity not unlike

[Raineyb]

cars or televisions and as such people can be expected to save up for it and not obtain it if they don't have the money for it (or worse go into debt to pay for it which by the way is the reason why over half of bankruptcies happen in the first place, people use credit to pay for medical care and 75% of those people HAD insurance to begin with) Health care is part of the commons and as such should not be treated like a product which people can go without. It should be on par with police and fire protection. Are you proposing that we give up our single payer military and have everyone negotiate or take out government subsidized loans in order to take care of a criminal matter that comes up?

As long as you adhere to the monstrous ideology that the market solves anything nothing no matter how well explained will make sense to you. The Magistrate is correct here and you are dead wrong (pardon the pun) your idea of giving money to the individual who is least able to negotiate prices rather than using the tax system and its size to get the best prices possible is for lack of a better phrase ass backwards.