As the battle over a national health care plan wages on, there is one point that we rarely hear about — charity. People without insurance are not denied health care.Whoever believes people are denied health care because they don’t have insurance should look over the annual reports of charity that hospitals dole out, year after year. They would be shocked to learn the dollar amounts.One of the problems in delivering health care is that in some areas it is not easily accessible because doctors and hospitals simply aren’t nearby. There are isolated areas in this state, and in many others, in which some distance must be traveled to see a doctor and to receive treatment in a hospital.Technology today is making it easier for a doctor in a rural area to connect via computers to a specialist. Advice from a specialist on just about any medical problem can be transmitted almost as if the doctor was right there with the doctor and patient in a hospital.Hospitals accept emergency cases whether the person has insurance or is without such protection. They are not denied care.Most hospitals write off the noninsurance cases as charity. Do people who have health insurance through the rates they pay help pay for the uninsured? Certainly that may be the case in some instances, to a certain extent, but the amounts of charity given by all hospitals is just that — charity. After insurance and Medicare adjustments are made, hospitals, in many cases, only collect about 40 percent of the amount charged.We believe ObamaCare will be replaced at some time. But we don’t think a government plan will solve all of the health care financial ills because not enough money will be appropriated.