Corporate greed is more harmful than taxes collected by the government

Hospitals and funding ... Hospitals are mostly run by HMOs. HMOs decide what and how much they fund. The CEO is between you and essentialy services. If the HMO says to pull the plug, no matter what the doctor or patient want, the plug gets pulled. This was admitted to in testimony before Congress! Despite rumors to the contrary, no one gets free medicine ... an indigent who goes to the ER gets a $700 bill that will get reported to the credit bureau before they even do anything. Someone who commits the crime of getting sick gets punished with a bad credit score. "... don't envision much change" for Fire departments in a private sector. Aside from the fact that tens of millions of Americans would not have any fire protection at all anymore, you mean, and that those who do will pay many times more than they currently do in taxes to fund stock dividends and multi-million-dollar executive bonuses, and if the "FMO" decides to be less than thorough in funding, a small fire could be left smouldering a bit because the FMO won't fully fund putting it out? "Expensive services become impossile to obtain" ... you think the cream of the U.S. crop has the absolute best in the world? Wrong, one of the most socialist states on the planet, Sweden, I believe carries that spot! The best tech, and its universal health care! In fact we import a lot of medical tech from Sweden. And ... WTF, you think it is -good- to let unrpoductive people die from diseases expensive to treat? I simply have no answer whatsoever, none that are rational anyway, to such a remark! It reeks very much of aristocracy or caste, and very much in opposition to life, liberty and the persuit of happiness and justice for all. Oligi-ocracy anyone? "... as evidenced earlier, under a free market ... access across the board is cheaper." Umm, what? What evidence? That's patently false, the W.H.O. proved it! No socialized health care system costs more than our corporatized one! "not being their slave" So HMOs should not be slaves to actually fund their customers' health care as they are supposedly in the business of? Have you actually read what you are writing? In your book, people should hand over their money to an HMO and not expect anything in return, most certainly not having their health care covered as the HMO promised! I guess you feel HMO CEOs and stockholders are in dire need of charity. "Irrelevant?" Umm, no, I challenged you to find a single example. Employers rich enough to offer heatlh care benefits don't buy into more than one option, so you are stuck with whatever your employer offers, if anything, buddy! I submit you just proved my point and disproved your own. HMO corporations do /not/ create health care, they merely tyrannize and profit from the appearance of providing it. Doctors and hospitals create health care, but they are overruled by what an HMO will pay for. Its up to them if they actually fund a procedure or not, and even for paying customers with legitimate needs who have paid tens of thousands of dollars over the years in obscenely high premiums, they can still refuse to fund a basic procedure. In effect, they take a customer's money and can and have provably provided customers with nothing for that money if you actually get sick and need help. "Their way or the highway-to-the-graveyard-way" is not free choice. Pay us a lot of money and we might help you or might not, or do not pay us (if your employer even allows you the luxury of paying us for which we might give you nothing in return) and die ... sorry, I don't see a free choice there.