These were some comments I posted on an article for the Deseret News addressing healthcare reform:

A healthy society depends on healthy citizens. It shames us all when we, the wealthiest country in the world, allow any of our citizens to go without basic necessities, like food, shelter, clothing, and yes - healthcare. It's shameful when any of us are so greedy that we fail to concern ourselves with not just our fellow countrymen.
You may use your religion to justify your greed and selfishness in whatever way you want. You are still a hypocrite. If you want to be Christlike, imagine him turning over the moneylenders' tables, administering to the poor, healing the sick even when they were not his followers, and blessing even the prostitutes. Then ask yourself why you would blame the poor for their poverty, blame the consumer for predatory loan practices, and blame the sick for needing to get well. Christ made a point of giving everything he had to help even the undeserving.
Any pure economic or governmental system never works. It always has to be some kind of hybrid. In our case, socialistic governmental practices preserve the symbiotic nature of our capitalistic society. Left to their own devices, humans naturally hoard resources for their own consumption. Corporations are much the same.
The free market requires regulation to keep everyone healthy. Large corporations don't create jobs out of the goodness of their hearts. They create jobs to make more money. And if profits are down because the rest of us can't afford to buy their product, then their business fails. People are fired. And the cycle continues until we're in a recession. Regulation forces the corporations to maintain a healthy level of greed - one that keeps driving the economy without destroying us all. Healthcare is entering the same kind of greedy bubble that the housing industry was in a few years ago. It WILL burst without government intervention to keep it healthy.
Oh, and while we''re at it - my family of 6 has an income of $50,000 a year. That's sufficient to feed, clothe, and shelter us. We spend next to nothing on anything else. I am fortunate in that my children qualify for sCHIP. I am unfortunate in that because of a "preexisting condition" (an abnormal pap smear that I was informed by an insurance rep "means you have cancer"), I am unable to get private insurance. I make too much to qualify for Medicaid, and always will as long as I have any income at all. Insuring through HIPAA would cost $800 a month. Being insured through my husband's small company would cost approximately $450 a month - perhaps not too large a sum until you consider that I like to buy groceries every month, and have to choose between my personal health and feeding my kids. I chose feeding the kids, especially since my experience with insurance companies has been one denial of payment after another. Thus I have a variety of untreated conditions.
It may technically be a choice, but it's really not much of a choice at all.

View the origonal Article Here.