Responding to msg by Doug Cutrell: In the real world, the voting public is not required to be kind to the hospital or the company, either. If a large political block can put into place structures (laws and enforcement) which effectively provide coercion against such denials of service, this is fair play as well. ................................................................. All's fair in love and war. But how many of the voting public does it take to squeeze blood out of a turnip? (i.e. create something from nothing?) Before the voting public which bands together can coerce a service out of some corporate entity, there must first be a Provider in existence. This Provider most probably would not have materialized miraculously out of the good intentions of the State but would had to go through all the time and trouble of gathering the ideas, the resources, and the manpower to make their services available to customers. Once the corporation, that enterprise, that commerical entity, had been created and constructed - once the building was in place, the system set up along with the required equipment, and all of the administrative functions had been set in motion, *then* the voting public would have an object for their attention; they could come together and attempt to take over the operation and coerce the Provider into delivering the benefits indiscriminately to everyone. They could probably even conspire to have this service for free. They might even succeed in accomplishing it, and maybe it would work for a bit. But I don't know how long Providers could survive without remuneration, in the real world, nor how long they would tolerate the image of themselves as Slaves to the Voting Public. Blanc