People dying from lack of health insurance

From another forum member- "It is unacceptable to be the richest nation on earth and have people dying because of lack of health insurance."

It is a noble and wonderful thing that many people try to save the lives of others. However, it should be done voluntarily. To give government employees the power to use force to save lives is a dangerous thing. Government power has taken millions of lives in the past. We give the Food and Drug Administration the power to use force in approving drugs to save lives. That approval process now takes years and costs millions. How many people die from the slow actions of the FDA? How many terminally ill patients die because the FDA will not allow those dying patients to even experiment with a new drug?

Giving enough power to government employees to save lives is letting the government employees play God. This power has always been an ignition source for an inferno that, until the printing press, has usually been extinguished only by blood.

Charles Tolleson

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time". Edith Wharton