Let's try selling hot chocolate before Dope-a-care

Try this experiment. At the next office meeting, family gathering, high school sporting event, try selling cups of hot chocolate for $1.50. Offer cream and marshmallows with a sprinkle of cinnamon or nut meg for an extra $.50. People who really would like a cup of hot chocolate will buy a cup. If you're lucky you might sell enough to break even or make a buck or two.

At the next similar event, set up a stand and give it away. In minutes there will be a line. The word will spread and soon people who were not invited to the event will be standing in line for a free cup of hot chocolate. Even people who do not care for the stuff will wait in line if you give it away.

In ten minutes you'll be running low on supplies and have to limit the hot chocolate to office workers, family members or people who really need hot chocolate. Soon after that you'll start to run low on supplies. No more cream. No more marshmallows. Only the very few get cinnamon or nut meg. Soon the hot chocolate itself begins to run low so you begin to water it down to make it go further. Then you simply run out.

At the end of that experiment you're out of hot chocolate and have made no money to replenish your supply for another experiment - in fact you are deep in the hole. But the people who enjoyed the second experiment continue to show up looking for the hand out.

Now let's try the same experiment with Dope-a-care.

The Dope-a-care big lies

1. It'll cut medical costs.
a. BS. You cannot add people to the medical rolls for nothing and "cut costs."
b. Our experiment showed that if you give something away, people who do not even want the product will take just because it's free.
c. When that happens the only way to stay even is to cut services.

2. It will cover everyone.
a. BS. Even by their own numbers the Demo-Dope plan will leave millions without coverage.
b. When the inevitable rationing comes millions more will go without care.

3. We are in a health care emergency and something must be done now.
a. First off BS.
b. There is no emergency. For now, America has the best health care system in the world.
c. No one in need is turned away from an emergency room because of an inability to pay.