The essential difference

William Shatner had Rush Limbaugh on "Raw Nerve" for an interview, and Rush put his finger on the basic difference in them and us about health care reform, as reported on HuffingtonPost:

"Here's my premise and you agree with it or not," Shatner posited. "If you have money, you are going to get health care. If you don't have money, it's more difficult."

Rush skirted the issue and chose to talk about real estate instead. "If you have money you're gonna get a house on the beach. If you don't have money you're gonna live in a bungalow somewhere."

"Right," Shatner responded, "but we're talking about health care."

"What's the difference?"

Shatner pressed on. "The difference is we're talking about health care, not a house or a bungalow."

Rush then accuses Shatner of assuming "there's some morally superior aspect to health care."

Exactly !!! Thanks, Rush, for your moral clarity. I disagree, but at least you are honest in your greed and "I've-got-mine-so-screw-you" mentality.

I do think there is a moral question here. Do we in the most developed country in the world have a moral obligation to see that all of us get basic health care, just as we get public schools and police protection?

Some, like Rush and many Republicans in Congress, would not include health care. That's an honest answer.

But it's not the one I want to live with.

Ralph