As a Christian, I have a problem opposing national health care. Why can't we take care of our sick who are in need?

Right now, doctors are beholden to profit-making corporations, and instead of a bureaucrat between you and your doctor, an employee of a profit-making corporation is making decisions that will determine how much money the corporation profits. That sounds immoral to me.

If you don't have health insurance, doctors just won't take you. My son is dealing with that now - he is too old for our health insurance and although he worked full-time for the required time, the week before he was to get benefits, they put an indefinate freeze on new benefits.  Someone will have to quit or get fired for him to qualify, and nobody there dares to quit in this econonmy. He needs an MRI, and has the $1800 for it, but can't find a doctor to prescribe it - the hospitals won't do one without a prescription. Clinics won't do it because his situation is too complicated.

A woman in my Church had cancer 15 years ago, and her insurance company did a non-renewal, and she was never able to get health insurance for her small business after that. Now the cancer has come back; the only "free clinic" for cancer treatment in our area closed in January. We give her as much money as we can, but it doesn't come close enough to covering the chemo, so she only pays for pain meds and is getting her affairs in order.

My husband has a co-worker who is still working in her 70s because her adult son, who had a great job, savings, and a house, got cancer.  The chemo and radiation left him so weak, he couldn't walk to his front door, so he had to quit his job.  After he went through all of his savings and retirement, he lost his health insurance (COBRA only lasts 18 months), and then he had to sell his house to pay his bills so his doctors would continue his treatments.  He now lives with his mom.  The cancer has left his face disfigured, and he can't get a job because it's so difficult for people to look at him.  He doesn't qualify for Medicaid because they count his mom's income, but she can't quit, because he needs money for his meds.  He wants to get surgery to reconstruct his face, but he can't find a doctor to do it unless his mom sells her house to pay for it in advance - then they would both be homeless.

Another homeschooling mom I know has an adult son who lost his job when the company went out of business, so he had nothing to COBRA.  He's been searching for a new job, but can't find anything.  Then, last week, he had a seizure.  He refused to go to a doctor because he didn't want that on his record - he'd never be able to get health insurance again.  But what if it's something serious?

If you are an irresponsible driver, you can still get car insurance through the high risk pool. If you buy a house in a flood plain, and your own homeowners insurance won't cover floods, you can purchase flood insurance through the government. Why can we protect property, but not lives? Isn't that immoral?

Why are we not out there proposing a moral system that will truly help people? People are dying for lack of care. I thought we had a right to life?

Please comment on this - but don't just complain about what they are proposing.  Throw out some ideas.  Let's come up with an alternative to what is being proposed - something moral, compassionate, and feasible.