At last we have a health insurance bill up for consideration. The proposed bill
does much more than tinker around the edges of the health insurance problem. It
addresses the uninsureds, the arbitrary limitations on who is covered, for what and at what cost. It may even result in reigning in the runaway costs of health care.
All that is good. It could be better by addressing the pay for procedure system but hey, we can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Sad to say the conservatives among the Dems, and the Repubs will do all in their power to defeat any reform. That is as their paymasters require. They maintain that
it is better to stick with the failed system, which rewards and subsidizes the for- profit insurance industry, because we know what its defects are and wont be surprised
if it doesn't work. That the present system will destroy our economy in less than a decade is for future congresses to deal with. As for the public interest, sorry, wrong number. That is the bad.
The ugly, is the vicious campaign of lies, distortions and threats which the
insurance industry, supported by the right wing thugs, has foisted on the public.
They are selling poison disguised as public welfare announcements, and large numbers
of the public are buying. If they succeed in defeating reform it will be a huge
step in the decline of our quality of life. We have more than enough of those
already.
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The complexity of the new health care bill, whatever it is, will become a gold mine to be exploited by eager lawyers. Maybe more people will indeed have medical insurance but we will remain at the mercy of arrogant doctors and greedy insurance companies.
Reform is complex and costly. It solves problems and create others.
Reform implies change, which is
usually traumatic for many. But reform is the fertilizer for progress. Where would our civilization be if timidity kept us ever in the same state? M.
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