Shaming Hippocrates

My first opinion -- and anyone who knows me knows this is NOT my first opinion, just the first one I offer here (after all, my statement on politicians is more like a fact) -- involves the health care debate.

It seems to me that as long as Americans are willing to accept the idea that health care is a profit industry, then health care companies will continue to pull down annual profits that will exceed $300 billion a year; they can deny a child coverage because he is too tall or she is too thin; and then abandon those who need coverage the most. After 65, for most Americans, the Public Option is the ONLY option -- Medicare. Our reward for having produced as workers for decades is to be ignored and abandoned by all except the government plan, just when our health issues will begin to mount. Even supplimental plans to cover the 20 percent Medicare does not are prohibitive to someone on a fixed retirement; one serious illness can bankrupt a once productive family and push them out of their home until they are qualified by their low income for Medicaid.

So who are the hypocrites here? And where is the Hippocratic oath?