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I keep coming back to what Steven Waldman, Editor-In-Chief and Co-Founder of BeliefNet, said about the current status of health care in the U.S.:
* A system is immoral if it allows (or encourages) insurance companies to turn you away exactly when you need help most. (Thanks to exclusions for "pre-existing conditions.") That's unfair.
* A system is immoral if it allows (and incentivizes) insurance companies to write policies full of fine print that leaves shocked patients with devastating bills. That's dishonest.
* A system is immoral if it means that losing one's job means not only losing income but the ability to take your child to the doctor. That's cruel.
* A system is immoral if it forces people to stay in jobs that they hate because they don't want to lose their health coverage. That's tragic.
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