Funding Health Care Expansion

When Obama took office and the Democrats went wild over the opportunity to "reform" health care, they really went off the rails.  They became so entrenched with side issues, that they lost sight of their goal: providing health care to the poor.  Suddenly, everything became "insuring the uninsured," rather than "giving healthcare to the poor." In case you didn't notice, there's a big difference; who among us wouldn't defer health insurance costs in lieu of paying - even out of pocket - reasonable health care costs? Had this been a Republican action, every liberal from here to Timbuktu would swear it was a conspiracy involving Cheney and Halliburton to enrich the insurance companies. But this was Democrats, not Repubs, and the insurance companies are certainly poised to be enriched. So now what?

There are lots of ways to skin that cat of providing health care to the poor, and here's one of them:  Make all non-profit hospitals treat the uninsured for free.  

After all, non-profits already operate tax-free, and most of them are flush with cash because of philanthropic donors. Indeed, they have entire departments operating to solicit donations to their operations  And if you think these hospitals are the bottom of the barrel, be informed that none other than Johns Hopkins is a tax-exempt nonprofit.

So if the goal of health care "reform" is to deliver health care, then do it.  Otherwise, stop trying to get everyone else to foot the bill for insurance that the poor can neither afford, not even necessarily want to have to manage.