A Conservative Case for Healthcare to be Made Wednesday

Several notable green efforts exist today in the health care field focused on addressing the negative environmental impacts of hospital resource use and disposal. These important hospital-based initiatives promote the use of safer medical supplies and materials, and the reduction of toxic medical waste. What has been overlooked is the important role of primary health care practitioners operating in small- to medium-sized clinics.

The private sector is able to operate with far more efficiency than public, that isn't in any kind of doubt at all.  However, a lot of people are concerned with an aspect that a lot of conservatives just won't acknowledge as being an issue, which is the ethical dilemma of health care.  Granted, everybody has a right to profit, but the thing about medicine is that the power of life and death comes into question, and that does not see, like something that should be subject to avarice, and it has been proven time and again that business interests are routinely put above issues of life and death - for instance, Nestle and their replacement for breast milk in Africa, which locks poor people into having to buy formula which shouldn't actually be given to infants until they are over 6 months of age to begin with.  Avarice and profit are, of course, two different things.  Profit is merely the amount (by either actaul count or percentage) of income less expenditures.  Since profit is the motive of all business ventures, profit in and of itself is not an evil, whereas avarice, or greed, whatever you choose to call it, is the motive for profit above all other things, and when you have a for profit structure applied to medicine, or any other industry in which life and death become concerns, then any motive for profit has to be strictly checked against the potential for disaster.  You cannot justify people dying so a few rich people can cash some bigger checks.  That is tyranny, period - and tyranny is tyranny no matter how you slice it, whether it's governmental tyranny, or the kind of tyranny that is given license, and in fact legitimacy by the government at so many turns it's sickening, which is corporate tyranny - corporations having mroe rights than the actual citizens, and quite frankly, the record of our business establishments tends to speak for itself, and in no way should they be granted power over life and death, in any way shape or form.  If there were a way for private health care to stay viable and remain the primary method of delivering health care to our citizens, then it should remain so.  However, it is starting to appear that pay or die is the modus operandi, and someone who values human life and the quality of that life, then there is few justifications for opposing a public health plan.  You just can't.  Besides, when you really think about it, hasn't the medical trade gotten rich enough already?  And the people that rake in the cash aren't the people that do the work, i.e. doctors and especailly not the people who do the heavy lifting, the nurses?  It isn't justifiable any more, especialyl if we're going to be on this "We're the greatest country in the world" kick and not have ANYTHING to show for it.