To add on to MMI's post. There is a public health issue involved in the argument FOR Universal Health care as well. If someone who can't afford health care (and in this country there are more and more of us) and they get something serious or contagious it affects their whole area.

My feeling is the Health Care Insurance Industry are the ones that create the socialist bugaboo. They have a cash cow here and do not want to lose it. WHile most Americans suffer. And where a high school educated clerk decides what will be paid for and what won't be.

ALL PEOPLE deserve health care.

ANd Duncan, you are right, but many that do not support Universal Health care use that argument. That the poor are ALL ne'erdowells that do not deserve to be treated like human beings. SO MMI's point was sound, it IS callous to believe this. But many, many people believe it.