In response to Reid Beveridge column: Your answer wasted a lot of time and ink. You could have just said, "Like food, cars and houses, you should get the (food/car/house/healthcare) you can afford. If you can't afford any, just die." I find that thinking morally bankrupt, but I'm sure you take comfort in sitting around counting your money and wishing those who have some misfortune in their lives would just disappear.
I was taken by your intimation that the quality of care is lower in countries with socialized medicine. The United States spends nearly twice as much per capita on healthcare than any other industrialized country. Comparing average life expectancy with 20 of those countries, the United states is lower than 15 other countries. If average life expectancy is not a good measure of quality of care, what is?
I once asked a heart surgeon I know why he gets paid so much more than the auto mechanic who overhauls my car, when they both are doing basically the same thing. He replied, "Well, I do it with the engine running." Mea culpa.
Jim Beal
Millsboro
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