Title: ORourke54.htm
They need to call this something other
than Health Care Reform.
In general, the care is fine. In some instances, outcome is fantastic.
The cost, it ain't so fine.
How much progress are we willing to sacrifice by lowering the cost (and
the profit) of the care?
David
"There
is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and
there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself
as
"caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the
government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to
try to
do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who
takes pride
in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his
own money
-- if a gun is held to his head."--P.
J. O'Rourke
Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
Hi Billy,
On Sep 14, 2009, at 3:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:
A top senator is calling for fines of up to
$3,800 on families who fail to
get medical insurance after a health care overhaul goes into effect.
This is the fundamental paradox of health care reform. In theory,
everyone says they are in favor of lowering insurance rates and
preventing insurers from denying or dropping coverage.
Unfortunately, the only two options for doing that are:
i) providing insurance at a loss, since those most at risk for diseases
would be more likely to apply. This means the government has to
basically run the whole thing.
ii) mandatory enrollment, either automatically or with a penalty for
failure to enroll
There's no easy answer, but somebody's got to face that brutal fact if
we're going to make any progress.
-- Ernie P.
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