Ok. We’ve heard all sorts of stuff about President Barack Obama’s 2000-page health care bills, and a great deal of talk from Obama himself. Well, the more we all hear, the more reason there is to be concerned–extremely concerned. You need to take a look at this article put together by Shawn Tully and posted not on some rightwing website or talk show host, but via Yahoo.com, Fortune Mag., and CNNMoney.
It directly confronts the massive problems with Obama’s proposals but does not accept the current status quo and ends by saying this:
The best solution is to move to a let-freedom-ring regime of high deductibles, no community rating, no standard benefits, and cross-state shopping for bargains (another market-based reform that’s strictly taboo in the bills). I’ll propose my own solution in another piece soon on Fortune.com. For now, we suffer with a flawed health-care system, but we still have our Five Freedoms. Call them the Five Endangered Freedoms.
Folks, we had better become informed and do something about this before it is too late. What are you going to do when your government tells you which doctor you must see? Or, tells you that your condition is too serious to waste money on expensive procedures?
Personally, I’m working hard to take care of my own healthcare costs for 90% of things I, or my kids, may ever go to the doctor or dentist for, via a Health Savings Account. In my opinion, some version of HSA and putting more choices and responsibilities in the hands of the individual is the answer. I am quite angry over a plan that will socialize our system, take on a massive burden that it will not be able to handle in the long term, strap my children’s generation with even more debt, restrict my choices, interfere with my very personal medical decisions, and, in the end, still be unable to insure everybody. That’s the truth that is being ignored, at the end of the day and inspite of all promises millions will go uninsured. Why? Because no one can afford it! Even by taking more money from the rich (i.e. stealing), there will not be enough to go around! What should that say about this plan? If it cannot even do it what it promises at the outset to do, then what is the real reason for this plan?
Read the rest: “The Five Freedoms You Would Lose In Health Care Reform.”
I’d like to know your thoughts on health-care reform! I’m trying to think through this myself. It is a complicated issue but one that we should be very, very careful to think through. Personally, as you can see from above, I’m stating from the outset that I don’t believe government should be involved in our healthcare to any great extent. The risks for abuse of power and control in this situation are just too great. We’ve talk often in the US about a wall of separation between church and state, well perhaps we need a wall of separation between hospital and state.
Anyway, speak out on this! What are you thinking??
Posted on July 29, 2009
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