I love Montana, but good lord, if you ever wanted to know why red states vote red, here it is. And remember, Missoula is the liberal part of Montana. The editor's health care solution appears to be, if you can't afford health care, die. :eyes:
"Higher prices would go a long way toward solving all those problems. If flu vaccine really matters (it can, but until now, not enough people seemed to grasp that fact), people ought to be willing to pay accordingly. The price should reflect what it's worth to stay healthy, to keep employees productive, or to avoid the high insurance payouts associated with hospitalizations and deaths. You could, say, quadruple the cost of flu vaccine without approaching the cost of treatment and lost productivity. Raise the price that much, and you'd find more companies interested in producing vaccine, more willing to risk legal liabilities associated with injecting healthy people that can, sometimes, make them sick. Raise the price high enough, and you might even generate the political support for limiting the liability companies face when selling properly made vaccine. Higher prices leading to higher profits might even induce American companies to produce vaccines in America."
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2004/10/24/opinion/opinion4.txt