As the implementation of Affordable Care hits the pavement, I continue to try to present the issues for consumers, albeit sometimes more clearly than other times. Today, in spite of my temptation to claim I have ESP or some other fabulous gift, I’m including some proof of how reading can help us better address issues that are impacting our health care.
In 2008, my blog post “On Language: Everybody has an idea for Health Reform,” expressed my deep concern for dialogue that indicated that people who warned about the direction of healthcare were being dismissed by a simple, “You’re crazy,” response.
Eventually after all the fat. smoking, aging, chronically ill misfits who have supported this government and its policies favoring health insurance companies and physicians die out, we'll have a country of super-healthy young folk who will use their status to respond to no coverage for lots of money, mandatory screenings for diseases for which they are not at risk, taxation in the form of penalties imposed for choosing not to buy a product in our market place, (specifically illusory health "insurance" plans) who will maybe be bold enough to respond to no services for lots of money with a hearty....YOU're CRAZY!
[Not so crazy, note the reference to the young and obtaining “no coverage for lots of money,” (PPACA increased cost for young people’s health insurance using 3:1 rather than 5:1 ratio). Note my objections to including coverage for screenings for diseases for which they are not at risk (essential health benefits). Note the reference to taxation in the form of penalties imposed for choosing not to buy a product in our market place (individual mandate).]
More proof of the power of reading? Circa 2008, I blogged, “We care so much about your health that we will penalize you if you don’t buy health insurance.” Who was pushing for the individual mandate? No other than the AMA, the American Medical Association, expressing their “’concern’ for the uninsured…who ‘can afford’ health insurance and ‘choose’ to be uninsured.”
