Today, someone sent me to a CNN webpage that reported on four individuals -- Karen Scheuerman, Mary Pitman, Douglas Wolk, and Lita Epstein -- that are pleased as pink about Obamacare. Go and look for yourself and then come back to this blog, because I am going ask the questions below that CNN, apparently, failed to ask.
Go here: http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1004/gallery.health_care_real_people/index.html
For Karen Scheuerman – How much money have you saved because you pay premium for a $10,000 plan, versus first dollar coverage? It certainly should be enough to pay for necessary preventive services. What preventive services are you unable to afford, given how much you are saving?
Do you sincerely believe that a health insurance plan offered through a Health Insurance Exchange will save you money? Based on what data? And those subsidies you expect to receive, are they free? I mean, does someone else have to pay them so you can pay less? I note that you are in some kind of financial advisory business. Will you be advising your clients that getting on the dole is a wise strategy?
Mary Pitman – I see that you are willing to pay for preventive care, but not for catastrophic coverage. What part of “insurance” do you fail to understand? Insurance is all about getting help for unexpected occurances, not preventive care (well, in a normal insurance market, anyways).
And you suggest the ER is the only choice for uninsured people? Are you sure, or does your town lack Community Health Centers?
Apparently you believe picking pockets is okay, as long as it is someone else’s pocket you pick. Do I have that right?
Why do you care, by the way, that people (prior to Obamacare) with health insurance have to pay more, since you are not presently insured?
You suggest that everybody will get cheaper health care. That is an interesting theory, but I expect you will be very disappointed as health care cost continues to rise faster than CPI.
Lastly, I see that you are a healthy person, and you understand that getting healthy people into the pool is important. Why, then, haven't you jumped into the pool yet? Or are you just waiting until someone else helps to pay your premium?
Douglas Wolk – Let’s see. You are young and healthy, and apparently, you only need flu shots (I would ask you who told you that, but it would take me off course). If you only need flu shots and help for an occasional snotty nose, that might even work in one of those foreign countries (as long as you can find a family doctor willing to take your case).
Imagine, you have to pay a whopping $500 a month to insure three people. How much do you think is fair? Then I see that you prefer not to abide by the insurance contract you willingly signed that tells you up front not everything you want is covered. Let me ask you this: When you go to a restaurant and pay the menu price of a hamburger, do you get angry if the owner denies you prime rib?
About that single payer thing: As a writer you need to do more research. And are you really anxious to live in a country where the government could employ “mechanisms” to keep costs down? I wonder how that would work?
Lita Epstein – You are 57 and self-employed. Your $700 a month insurance increased to $1,200 at age 56. I am 62, self-employed, and the insurance my wife and I own just increased to $689 a month. What gives? Aha. You probably have richer coverage than I do, instead of the common sense insurance that I own.
I see you have a health plan of sorts. Looks to me like a plan that costs you more than you will ever actually spend on health care, since it is virtually useless for any catastrophic procedures.
You Four: Listen up now. Aren’t you glad that in the United States there are filthy rich people, people that make more than $200,000 year – really filthy rich – who are willing to give you some of their money? What a country.
2 comments:
Dave:
1) When I looked at this, I got a vague sense like when one of those people calls into a conservative talk-show and says, "I'm a conservative but..." (liberal organizations dispatch people to call conservative radio and say, "I'm a conservative..."
In this case, "I'm in business..." Maybe not, I just got that feeling. In any case, they obviously aren't anything like rigorous thinkers.
And 2) It's interesting that there are only expressions of appreciation of the new law. Really? No questions? What's up with all the disfavor in all of those polls? Maye that great number of people don't pay any attention to CNN, anymore; or at least wouldn't write to it?
Dave, you just don't understand. You have a patriotic duty to help others who don't want to work. Capitalism and freedom is about forcing those who would rather sleep, into an enslaving work place that only encourages personal responsibilty and self-sufficiency. Come on, didn't you believe Obama when he clearly told Joe the Plumber about spreading the wealth.
I don't want to be accused of being a racist Tea Partier, but health reform had the first "Caucasian" tax. Don't believe it? How would you characterize the bed tannig tax?
And, by the way, once we talk care of the poor in the US we have so many more world wide to help as well. You should check out Senator Obama's proposed legislation to give 1% of the US GDP to the UN for feeding the world's hungry. Forget, buildoing up the bottom or spreading freedom and liberty around the world, we can just print more money. It's like Monopoly, without the go t jail card or the option of bankruptcy. Of course that could never happen.
I suggest, to all who are still reading and maybe laughing, a quick read of Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions." You will understand that these jokes and jokers are no laughing matter. They really think this way.
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