The Cowtown Chronicles

I had a great discussion with a good friend of mine tonight (and by “tonight” I mean at the bar just before it closed) about Obama’s healthcare plan and new Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, etc. My friend claims to be a conservative, but I don’t believe him — he’s got too kind of a heart to be what passes for a conservative these days.

Anyway, our discussion got me thinking –

Politics and questions about who’s going to pay for it aside, the question I keep asking about our “healthcare” system is this:

Are the literally life and death decisions that get made in the “healthcare” process the kind of decisions that we as a society want to leave up to a cog in the wheel of a for-profit company? Can anyone seriously say with a straight face that they trust the motives and intentions of a profit-motivated private corporation more than those of a government employee who doesn’t have to give a second thought to how much money he or she (or their company) is going to make or lose on a given case?