A Utah doctor has a good question: Why do the Koch brothers care?

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COMMENTS:
*  The Koch brothers are a cup of water in a 55 gallon drum.
    *  one cup of toxic polluted water can pollute the whole barrel.
        *  except the point is that the barrel is already polluted.
        *  One cup of mildly toxic water does little to change the make up of a highly toxic barrel as well.
*  Why do the opinions of those two crackpots matter at all?  Oh, yeah, the billions. Almost forgot.
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Letter: Why won’t Koch brothers let poor people have health care?
By William E. Cosgrove, M.D., June 10, 2015

The Koch brothers have a new political presence in Utah and have taken a stand against Gov. Gary Herbert's Healthy Utah Plan. This news got me wondering: Why do they care? Why would billionaires possibly want to continue to deprive Utah's working poor families of simple access to health care? Is it simply greed for even greater profits? Will their investments in the health-care industry suffer?

Are they worried that a healthier public will fight harder against the Kochs' air-fouling coal industries, or against ground-water fouling from fracking? Do the billionaires just need to keep people poor to have someone to look down on? They already look down on 99 percent, even the millionaires.

The only logical reason I can envision involves the quirky historical fact that health-care coverage in the United States has been tied to employment. This has tied (chained) workers to their employers. The overseers, the big bosses, must like seeing their employees chained to their jobs.

I hope our leaders will side with allowing Utah workers access to health care, and with it the freedom to choose where they work, over the "needs" of out-of-state billionaires.
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