We Let Them die -- With no Apologies

   Medicaid expansion? I consider the expansion offered up by the Utah Legislature to be a first step. We should never let people die, yet we do -- with no apologies. We look at those not receiving medical insurance and not receiving full medical benefits -- and dying as a result -- and we actually believe what we are doing is just and right. How can we think this way? Of course we need to cover them.
   The question should not be whether we should expand Medicaid, nor even, really, whether we can afford to -- for we have to -- but how we are going to pay for it. Unfortunately, we cannot wait for an answer to that. When lives are at stake, you save them, then figure out how to pay for it.
   I will say this: There are things we can do to reduce the cost of medicine.