The central issue isn’t technical but moral

Op-Ed Columnist - The Body Count at Home - NYTimes.com:
If it is not MRSA lapping at our shores, it is moral rot that is killing us, literally. The story is about just one victim of lack-of-insurance-because-of-preexisting-conditions. As Kristof says, the statistics are one more victim each half hour. Denied insurace because of lupus, the end result was virtually inevitable. This story is especially poignant as we lost a college fraternity friend, David Casper to lupus over 20 years ago. Since then treatment options have improved and lupus is not an automatic death sentence. Instead the death sentence comes from faulty morals that condemn sick people to death primarily because their sickness prevents them from participating in health care coverage.
Oh well, maybe we shouldn't bemoan our lack of health insurance since getting laid off in February 2007. If you get seriously sick it would probably get canceled anyway.