VIDEO A child's view of health care

It is the crux of the private verses socialized medicine argument.

Sean Brame, age 13, a quadrilateral amputee from septic shock, sat beneath a huge poster from the 1990's in Sen. Arlen Spector's office - "Bill Clinton's Liberal, Big, Government, Health Care Plan". The boy listened to what the aid of the republican senator had to say and then began speaking from his own perspective.

Brame said that if kids have arms and legs they can reach their dreams, get jobs, pay taxes and be productive; their artificial limbs are an investment in the future and keep people off of tax funded welfare.

If private health insurance was responsible for the people who fall though the cracks instead of taxpayers who also must contribute to the profit of health insurance companies, there would be lobbyists in Washington to help promote health programs that promote fully productive people.

Perhaps if the total cost of ever consolidating drug company monopolies, and health care networks were the sole responsibility of private health insurance instead of passing along to consumers and their tax dollars the cost for everything not covered there would be a motivation to reduce costs.

It hit me in that room sitting on the floor with a kid who was fighting for his future beneath a poster probably erected before he was born that the fear of socialized medicine should probably be directed more at the leaching of taxpayer funded social services currently taking place by private insurers.

How incredibly ineffective is a health care system that can never take into account the whole picture of health care when it has no economic interest or responsibility to help those most in need.