Personally Kevin, I don't know anyone who would choose to be without health care, In fact most everyone I know is scared to death about the prospect of losing it should their jobs end. Perhaps that's just because of the age bracket I'm in.

I do think that young people- say, in their twenties- may choose to live without healthcare because they are young and healthy and broke and would rather have the money.

Does that mean they shouldn't have coverage? Or that we shouldn't have a national policy on health care coverage? I work, as you may have gathered from previous posts, with Medicaid recipients who only seek health care when they are in crisis. The cost to me, and to you, is huge. What would you do with the tens of millions of people who are uninsured and who get treated-one way or the other- at great cost to the taxpayers? Unless you can tell me that we should either shoot them, deport them, or leave them to die on the sidewalk then we'd better get our shit together and develop a comprehensive plan to address the uninsured in this richest country in the world.

Are you denying the latest figures on poverty and health care coverage? Are you denying it's a problem? Are you like Dale in thinking it's a lack of character? Jesus, Kevin, not all the world can be such a self-sufficient "got the world by the balls" guy as you. What about the poor? The mentally ill? The homeless? Jesus had something to say about them... but then again I guess so did Hitler.