It may be satire, but it sounds like a great idea to me.

Any society where you have to pay for your rights is a society with no rights. Hell, we might as well go back to trial by combat, where the rich can afford the biggest, meanest, most heavily armed mother in town to stand in for them, and everyone else goes in bare-fisted and fights his own fight.

Actually, what's really pathetic is that the sleaze who wrote this can actually list so many good reasons why this is right, and still correctly assume that his audience will automatically side with his case, presumably snidely cackling at their own smug cleverness.

Of course, when you actually analyze this carefully, you can see that the only real beneficiaries will continue to be the lawyers. The analogy fails because bacteria and viruses, and the other agents that cause death and disease, are mindless forces of nature. They cause misery and death, but they don't do it on purpose and they don't get paid by their victims. And doctors don't have an adversarial and professional relationship with the physicians and institutionsrepresenting the pathogens.

That's not necessarily true for insurance companies and their lobbyists, though...