The Obama administration sent out an e-mail today debunking some of the scare tactics being used against healthcare reform. It links to a website called Reality Check, which reads at the junvenile level of someone who might actually believe the scare tactics.
It was nice that they addressed the main concern I have – that the contract I have with my insurance company will be proscribed by the new law. This "Reality Check" website promises, in no uncertain terms, that there will be no changes for people who like their plan. In the administration’s previous e-mailing, they said that high deductibles would be disallowed. Maybe they meant they would not be allowed in the gov’t option, but people who currently choose a higher deductible can keep their policy.
I want to support this thing. The administration's 10-year-old-reading-level website has no effect either way. The plan costs $100 billion per year, and we need to understand exactly what they are planning to do with that money. How are they going to keep the public option from becoming like states' existing high-cost public options (HIRSP, in my state) for those who are already sick? We need details.
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Yes, I agree the details are necessary. However, having studied and worked in government for over a decade I can tell you that the 10th grade level is GOOD for a government site. I was routinely told to write at the 6th grade level for judges, and for members of the Wisconsin legislature. It was not because they couldn't understand more advanced text, it was that time was short. Most likely the people who wrote the web site are government lifers....it is just what they do. Keep pushing for details though, government needs to be pushed and prodded.
ReplyDeleteDo you really want the government having any sort of say in your health care?
ReplyDeleteI find the very idea alarming when I see how well they run other, simpler, less important things.
Question - how do you add up to "40 million" uninsured and not have to resort to rationing?
I live on the border with Canada. I have experienced how wonderful the Canadian health care system is. They come over to this side in droves for their medical care. A friend took her elderly father to a specialist - he has dementia - and had to wait FIVE hours to see him... and most people thought that was a short period to wait.
Not my idea of something I want to see here.
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ReplyDeleteI do not understand the "rationing" claim. Since we have infinite wants and ability to make new healthcare products but not infinite resources, there will always being some "rationing".
If 40 million people can't afford to pay their medical bills, there's already some serious rationing going on. It's important to help those people afford basic medical care. My question is why we need to overhaul the entire healthcare industry to help poor people afford medicine.