These are two posts from the acor list in response to a WSJ article about a cancer survivor who was required to pay before treatment was given by M.D. Anderson.

I am usually in favor of market-based solutions to economic issues.  However I don't think that chronic healthcare in the U.S. can be managed with basic supply and demand principles.  I learned this the hard way having fought my insurance company...and lost.  David

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Date:    Thu, 1 May 2008 11:53:12 EDT
From:    "Dr. C. Derek  Statham" <DerekStatham@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Cash for Chemo WSJ Article

Well said Sandra,
        If we can have Medicare for over  65s why not for everyone. Health
care is a right. You should no more make a  profit from keeping people healthy
than protecting life and limb with the fire  or police departments. That's the
way it works in Europe and Canada.
Derek

I came  to the same conclusion several years ago
while researching health care for  poor families
with young children for a class I was going to
teach.  Single payer is the only fair and equitable
way to deliver health  care.

Sandra M. Stokes, Ph.D.
Professor of Education & Women's  Studies
Editor--WSRA Journal
238 MAC Hall
University of  Wisconsin--Green Bay, WI
Green Bay, WI  54311
(920)  465-2406
FAX: (920)  465-2232
stokess@uwgb.edu
I learned this the hard way. 

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Date:    Thu, 1 May 2008 11:53:12 EDT
From:    "Dr. C. Derek  Statham" <DerekStatham@AOL.COM>
Subject: Re: Cash for Chemo WSJ Article

Well said Sandra,
        If we can have Medicare for over  65s why not for everyone. Health
care is a right. You should no more make a  profit from keeping people healthy
than protecting life and limb with the fire  or police departments. That's the
way it works in Europe and Canada.
Derek

I came  to the same conclusion several years ago
while researching health care for  poor families
with young children for a class I was going to
teach.  Single payer is the only fair and equitable
way to deliver health  care.

Sandra M. Stokes, Ph.D.
Professor of Education & Women's  Studies
Editor--WSRA Journal
238 MAC Hall
University of  Wisconsin--Green Bay, WI
Green Bay, WI  54311
(920)  465-2406
FAX: (920)  465-2232
stokess@uwgb.edu