Is Health Care Only for The Rich and The Criminals?

There is equal protection to all citizens under the laws of the United States unless you are sick. Access to medical care in the United States is a privilege of the wealthy, the employed, the elderly, and the incarcerated. God help you get sick if you a low paid worker or a child living with working poor parents. There is no room or money in the health care system for these hard working souls.

These downtrodden are shunned by all who are privileged. Why should they have medicine or access to doctors if they only cut our grass, clean our dishes or mop the floors in our offices? Why should their children have pediatric care? The nerve of them! If they get sick and can't pay, they should pray. Pray to recover before they lose their job and their car. But they could always commit a crime and end up in prison.

Logic dictates the only solution would be to eliminate these people from our society. Make poverty a crime and put them in prison therefore granting them free healthcare. The problem would be solved. No more health care crisis.

Tell that to the people who remained behind in New Orleans. The good life the affluent lived in the Big Easy was assisted by these wonderful hard working people. They did the things that no one else wanted to do. They served at restaurants, the hauled away the trash, and they manicured the lawns in addition to their fingernails. They simply make our lives richer. It is a symbiotic relationship. Take out these people who are the foundation of society and our lives would not be as comfortable. Make health accessible to everyone now.

Posted by Dr. Michael Esposito M.D.
Radiologist and Author of "Locked In," a new medical thriller.
www.mikeespositomd.com