healthcare
I haven't said much about healthcare in this country. I have good friends, whose opinions I value, on both sides of the issue. However . . .
Today's compromise, and what I'm reading currently (Consumerist, Slate, Chicago Tribune, NPR, etc) has led me to one, depressing conclusion. Health care reform in this country is going to be even worse than I had anticipated. Instead of lowering costs, or extending coverage, or ensuring coverage for everyone, or reforming tort law, or any of the number of things promised, all it is doing is providing welfare for the insurance companies.
1. You have to have insurance, mandated by law
2. The only place you can get insurance is from a for-profit insurance company
3. Assuming, of course, that you can even get one of those companies to offer you a plan
Like I said, the worst of all possible worlds - except of course if you run an HMO or PPO. If I had some $ to spare, I know where I'd be investing today.
Ugh.
Today's compromise, and what I'm reading currently (Consumerist, Slate, Chicago Tribune, NPR, etc) has led me to one, depressing conclusion. Health care reform in this country is going to be even worse than I had anticipated. Instead of lowering costs, or extending coverage, or ensuring coverage for everyone, or reforming tort law, or any of the number of things promised, all it is doing is providing welfare for the insurance companies.
1. You have to have insurance, mandated by law
2. The only place you can get insurance is from a for-profit insurance company
3. Assuming, of course, that you can even get one of those companies to offer you a plan
Like I said, the worst of all possible worlds - except of course if you run an HMO or PPO. If I had some $ to spare, I know where I'd be investing today.
Ugh.