Comentary On 'The Ultimate Number Cruncher'

'The UltimateNumber Cruncher' is a harsh but accurate look at the old, profits before people, system of doing health care in this country. To a business, or industry, person, cutting anumber to save money makes sense. However, when that number represents a person, as this story shows, at least that person's life and often the lives of all of those they are close to are ruined. Letting the single father of four die leaving no one to care for his children, causing a teenage boy to starve himself to death, and letting children die to save money, all for nothing more than to pursue the all mighty dollar, is totally morally unjustifiable. These specific people are fictional, but things like this happened every day under the old system, and with those of us over eighteen will continue to happen until 2014. To a businessman those of us who might actually at some point need medical treatment may just be a number, and GOD forbid we have a pre-existing health condition that could make that even more likely, even though in my particular case, my particular overall medical history since my 1984 car acident would suggest that I would not, because I have not been in and out of the hospital for the past 26 years, but we are not just numbers, we are human beings with lives to live and people who love usand whom we love, and so just writing us off and letting us die to save our insurance company money is totally morally indefensible, and so 'The Ultimate Number Cruncher' model of health care must stayy dead for children and become dead for adults and anyone and everyone who even has any sense of compassion or cares at all for anyone other than themselves must stop even thinking abouut undoing even one comma of the reform that has made this old system and let the new system work for all Americans, and anyone who thinks at all of undoing Health Care Reform at all from 9:31P.m. Central time on Tuesday, September fourteenth, 2010 on shows that there is no room in their hearts for anyone but themselves, and if that's how the majority of the country really feels, what does that say about our country? I'll leave my readers with that to think about.