It's like this . . .

Robert Henderson of Dallas says that he's not quite sure how making health insurance available for people who can't get it or can't afford it is going to lead to the "demise of America, our economy and our health care system."

It's like this, Robert:

Somebody has to pay for it. If people who can't afford it are getting it, that means someone else is footing the bill.

If it's the employer footing the bill, he will either lay off employees, delay expansion, or shut up shop altogether, thrusting more and more people onto the welfare rolls.

If it's the taxpayer, he will have less money to spend in the marketplace which means that businesses will have less of a profit margin, and they will either lay off employees, delay expansion, or shut up shop altogether, thrusting more and more people onto the welfare rolls.

If fewer people are working, that means fewer people are footing the bill. There will come a time when the people who are footing the bills can't keep up with the ones who are getting the "available" and "affordable" health insurance.

When the government decides that doctors don't need $2,000 to perform a particular operation and they reimburse them only $1,000 when the doctor's cost is $1,500, the doctor will lay off employees or shut up shop altogether thrusting more and more people onto the welfare rolls. All the "available" and "affordable" health insurance in the world is of no use when you have no doctors -- or it takes you three years to get a gall bladder operation.

Capisce now, Robert?

"Doomsday take on ACA." The Dallas Morning News; October 10, 2013; p. 14A.