All Americans should be hooked up to health insurance

by J Scott Christianson, Columbia Daily Tribune Columnist

You go to a luncheon, and someone starts passing the hat for some poor soul who has been diagnosed with cancer and doesn’t have the medical insurance to pay for treatment. You go into the Break Time to pay for your gas and coffee and see another donation jar for some kid whose family lacks health insurance but needs a lifesaving operation.

You can’t ignore the pleas because you know these families will soon be in bankruptcy in a last-ditch effort to save…