Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Health Care Reality Check
This article from the NYT about Med students' summer job experience would be great for anyone thinking of a career in medicine. The spirit of the article is pro-reform, but it does not wade into weighing the trade-offs of different proposals or the political game amongst various government officials.
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solution: take all those people without insurance, grind them up into a sickly green pace, and use that to feed the third world. That way, everyone who needs care would get it (assuming a panel of bureaucrats approves care) and it would solve overpopulation. I often wonder why I didn't run for president this year, but then I remember that they changed the constitution so that you have to had been born in Kenya...oh, was that a secret?
but seriously, there needs to be reform, and even though our (meaning the left's) god/president said that the government option will have to be self sufficient, it will still need start-up money that will have to come from the tax-payers. I am adamantly opposed to this. Why should I, a tax-payer with blue shield PPO insurance paid for by my employer, have to subsidize even a part of someone else's health care when I was responsible enough to get it? It seems almost Darwinian (except in Kansas) that even though people know that there is a strong correlation between the ownership of insurance and length of life that they wouldn't try to get it at all. I'm sorry, but there is no excuse for not having insurance; that's what Medicaid is for.
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