New Era in Healthcare

Sometimes we are asked to believe something that any person with experience, understanding, the tiniest bit of common sense, and enough intellect to fill a thimble, knows is not possible given the way our society works.

In an AP story by Calvin Woodward today, I read the following:

The Senate’s Christmas Eve achievement brought the nation closer than it’s been for generations to a new order in health insurance. It would eventually require nearly all Americans to get coverage, help many pay for it and restrict onerous insurance company practices such as denying coverage to people with pre-existing sickness.

Now I am asked to believe that 30-40, or 20-30 million people (mythical numbers, often made up on the spot, and constantly changing) who “cannot afford insurance” are going to now be covered, and of course, the “Government” (read YOU an ME) is going to pay for it. Insurance companies are going to be required to accept everyone for coverage even if they are already sick and/or dying (which is like buying fire insurance on your house while it is already burning). They are also going to be required (or so I understand) to have no maximum limits on pay-outs for coverage.

Maybe that is the way insurance is supposed to work. Certainly seems like a good thing for poor, sick people. God knows I wish everyone had excellent insurance. . .even illegal aliens. What stick in my throat, the place where this is being rammed, is that they ask me to believe it is going to “cost less!” It is going to “save” money! How dumb do you have to be to believe that? I will grant that if you take a few hundred billion dollars away from Medicare coverage (that’s the “old” folks; I guess they can just die) and pay for those unable to pay for themselves, that will ease the burden for a while, but eventually (in a few short years) that money will be gone as well. Of course I have been trying to think of other Government programs that “cost less” and “save money” for the American people. But, I have failed miserably.

Here’s the deal. Health-care needs reform. There is much that can and should be done. But stop trying to get me to believe that this Senate bill is something it is not. And one thing it is NOT is a money-saver. I was born at night, but not last night.

I llove to read the Bible. In part because everything I am asked to believe is TRUE and provable. God has never led His people down some path that ended in despair and failure. He has promised to always be sufficient through His resources and not my resources. When He says it, I can believe it. Period, paragraph.