Compassion missing

It was interesting to read Rob Leach’s Sunday diatribe. According to Rob, that small minority without health care (a mere 47 million, or more than the populations of California and Illinois combined) demand he pay for their care. He claims it is mostly their choice to be in such straits. All of those infants and old people and mentally ill and handicapped just “asked for it.” How dare they!

He also states that the loving conservatives also believe health care to be a “right.” As long as you can pay for it! Perhaps Rob should look up the definition of a right. It is a right precisely because you don’t have to pay for it.

Maybe Rob could write a follow-up and let us know exactly what we should do with these people so they don’t pick his pocket. Kill them? Reopen the poor houses? Maybe we can talk them into emigrating to Canada.

I hope that no misfortune ever occurs to Rob or his family, but should it happen he can count on me, a godless liberal, to do my share to help out a fellow American without complaining about it. I believe that was the admonition of some preacher 2,000 years ago.

D. Neil Fitzgerald

Spokane Valley