Hi Doug,

I can see why you say that. While that is a common perception, I do not share your view. No system will ever be perfect or be able to pay for every conceivable need. Given that, we can then turn to the issue you raise: capitalism vs. socialism. Socialism in health care fails for the very same reasons it fails everywhere else - there is no relationship between cost and revenues...and there is no incentive to create one. To be sure, there are capitalists that are greedy and self-serving. But that should not discourage us from weighing the costs and benefits of each system on balance. In my view, a free market system - a truly free market system - is both noble and benevolent, despite its imperfections. People make choices and trade-offs according to his or her own value systems and charities and the vast majority of Americans could afford it. If government stepped in to fill the void, they should do it with a private market voucher system. It would save countless GOBS of money.