Everyone needs care

I am getting tired of hearing about health care reform, because the problem seems very clear, and the problem is profit.

If you want to make money on selling someone a car, go for it. If somebody offers to build you a million-dollar gazebo, why not? Those aren’t exactly life-or-death choices, and folks can charge whatever the market will bear.

But health care? The minute you put a bunch of profit-oriented insurance-company businessmen in charge of life-or-death decisions, they are obligated to push profits as high as possible at the expense of the people getting the care. Duh! That’s why there are environmental regulations, and that’s why there are food-processing regulations – to protect people who must use the resources because otherwise, lives are at risk. And if you’ll note, we all need clean air and water, we all need to eat and we all need to be taken care of when we’re sick.

If you are rich enough, buy whatever fancy, high-dollar plan you want – nobody is gonna stop you, because this is America, the land where money talks. But for the other 95 percent of us – cut us a break and give us the single-payer option.

Nancy Runyan

Spokane Valley