Capability

We have the capability to provide health care to everyone in our society.  Here in America, we certainly can build a health care facility in every community - more than one where needed.  We can staff each health care facility with qualified professionals to tend to the health care needs of everyone in that community.  And we have the clerical skill to share highly qualified specialists among the facilities so that no medical need go unanswered.

Our vast network of capitalistic enterprises have the capability to supply all of our health care facilities with the logistical support necessary to operate; medicines and medical supplies, machinery, clerical and record keeping supplies, and all other sundry items needed to efficiently manage the daily operations can be provided.

The health care professionals, along with the trained technical and support people who are a vital component of health care are very capable; they know what they are doing and they do it well.  Most every medical need could be taken care of.

We certainly have the capability to inform (almost all) of the people in the country that health care is available to them, and that all they have to do is visit a health care facility as they feel the need.

We Americans like to think of ourselves as a "Can Do" nation.  And we can be.  We are capable; we have the talent and the know-how to get just about any job done, as we see fit.

Capacity

But we are not always a "Will Do" nation.  "Will Do", in the discussion of providing Universal Health Care, has more to do with capacity than capability.  Capacity, in this discussion, has to do with the content of our human spirit.

Do we have, within us, what it takes to make the sacrifices that need to be made in order to provide health care to our fellow countrymen?  Does our national conscience cry out to us, making us aware of the high moral calling of "taking care of the sick"?  Is the intent of our spirit more concerned with the personal ME and MINE, or with the collective US and OURS?

It seems obvious that, as a nation, we lack the capacity of spirit to make the necessary sacrifices to provide for the health care of our fellow man.

We have the capability to provide Universal Health Care, but we lack the capacity.  How sad.  But, our  society continues to evolve, and I have hope for the future.