A couple of different times on TV news, I've seen these crazy angry people going off on their Congresscritters about all kinds wacked-out made-up shit about this health care bill. It just makes you scratch your head. Where are they getting this stuff? And then Palin posts stuff on Facebook about the feds being able to overrule living wills and power of attorney? For real?
I particularly don't know where this notion of "rationing" health care comes from either. What I've read about the bill is that it intends to eliminate the real rationing that our insurance companies already do with regards to existing conditions and what not. That anyone should ever be financially screwed because they have cancer is ridiculous.
ABC had a good story on some of this today (the guy talking about what's on page 16 would be funny if it weren't so sad), and it's about time they went beyond covering the angry mob and actually dug into the boring facts. FactCheck.org has probably the best stuff on the subject overall, as they've been fairly reliably non-partisan about politics for some time, and they attribute everything to the source. They've shown brutal shortcomings about the financial side of it.
The things that the various health care reform bills would implement for the most part strike me as being good for health care overall, when it comes to treatment. This wacky stuff coming out of God knows where doesn't change my opinion about that. I think the real center of this debate should have nothing to do with the medical side, or what Joe Taxpayer gets for it all. I think the cost and its impact on the federal budget, national debt, private insurers and the economy overall are the things that deserve the most attention. That's where I want to hear experts weigh in.
I've gotta say, one thing I love about Cleveland is having access to the Cleveland Clinic. The doctors are amazing, their online access to your own data is amazing, and even their billing is amazingly simple. We've been lucky that our insurance covers most of what we've had. But even then, Diana's post-vertigo physical therapy wasn't entirely covered, and that sucks. They don't seem to want to pay for anything preventative or anything that can help prevent recurrence. I don't get that at all, especially when many companies are encouraging more proactive health care to reduce bigger health issues down the road.
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