In a just society it would be ideal if everybody got the health care that they needed. I believe that health care is a necessity and, as such, a right, but the challenge in society is finding a way to make sure that a society can carry the burden of such a right. We have a lot of unnecessary obstacles in our system that make it hard to make sure all of our patients are covered. We do not have price transparency. We don’t have a true free market system where price discovery can help lower costs. We have a lot of lobbyists who rig the game in terms of insurance and expensive medications. Until there is some basic honesty in the system it will be difficult to continue to have things in our country work the way they do. A simpler system, of course, would be single payer but even in a system such as that we may have to worry about inefficient bureacracies. People should have access to their basic necessities, and especially in a civil society, should not die because there basic needs can’t be met. This doesn’t mean that we have no responsibilities as citizens to contribute to the system where we are able but it should be our frame of mind.
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