Vinny B. asserted:

I am quite sure that Harvard’s endowment makes a lot of money for drug company stocks and other health-care related companies that would not be able to continue to rape all of us for their massive profits when Obama ensures good health care for everyone.

No private company has the legal power to use physical force to compel you to do anything. So the notion that “health-care related companies” are “raping” you for “massive profits” is utterly preposterous — it’s vicious nonsense.

What’s more, to call the voluntary transactions that occur in the healthcare market “rape” is to egregiously insult all of the individual physicians, researchers, technicians, administrators and investors that work at “health related companies”– for you are equating the work they do with the violent crime of attacking the body of another person.

Even worse, your use of the term “rape” in this context is a slap in the face to every actual rape victim on the planet — for it asserts that what happened to them is no worse than what happens to you when you pay a doctor‘s bill you consider too high. One could forgive any actual rape victim if they expressed a desire to have you experience first hand what a real rape is like.

You should retract your accusation that healthcare companies are “raping” anyone and apologize for your offensive remark to both groups of individuals.

In 1900, the average life span in America was 47 years. By the year 2000, that had been extended to 77 years. It takes an especially sick and twisted individual to experience hatred and hostility toward an industry that has added three decades to the average American’s life. How discouraging it is to know that so many of these haters are among us here in America.