Posted by
Scott Vining on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 4:33:15 PM
The debate over the “health care crisis” is amazing. What is even more amazing is stacking the plain meaning of the words up and seeing what you have.
We have heard the constant drumbeat of "every industrialized country other than the US has universal health insurance coverage." If you go to the various countries' news agencies, you learn that, while they have universal coverage, the care is being rationed. While you are covered under the government’s insurance program, you can’t simply schedule an appointment for later this week for an MRI. Instead, the government’s system stacks all of the MRI requests and decides (we still don’t know how) which requests to grant and how to order the others.
Here in U.S., we do not have mandated coverage, but we do have mandated care. You aren’t feeling well? Well, you walk yourself into any hospital in the U.S. and get treated regardless of having medical coverage. This mandated care is required by law.
So citizens of the U.S., do you want to pay more for required coverage despite the fact that your care will be rationed (i.e. might never be received), or would you rather continue paying for required care?
I'll take the required care.
Are there issues with our current system? Yes, and someone really interested in solving the issues would list the issues, create alternatives solutions for the issues, evaluate these alternatives, and choose the solutions you feel solve the problems.
Do you see Congress or the President doing this? No, because they're not interested in solving the problems, only centralizing power.