Are We Going to Let John Die? – NYTimes.com

One problem is that there are people (like Rush .. see the clip provided) who think that it's entirely OK for comprehensive health care to be for the wealthy (he compares it to the wealthy being able to afford a house on the beach and seems to see no difference between the two cases).

http://www.newser.com/story/75224/shatner-lashe...

Policy reform should not include distractions that do not help towards improvement. We can fear what talking heads will expound at length upon ad nauseum, or we can get to work. At our level, it shouldn't be what politico darlings are vouching for our trust, it should be what specifics we can endorse as changes for good, or maintain for the same.

I'll pass on the Rush link. I do not feel the need to compensate for his extremism with any reaction of my own. And I can only hope this hype isn't fuel for justifications for rampant policy overreactions by the left, which induces rationlisms for overreactions again on the right. In fact, not only is it hard for any policy to be enacted in this climate, it's even harder still to get a proper policy done, and even harder still to get the best one.

The devil is in the details, man. Let's do battle, with them.

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The point of my providing the link to Rush is to point out that there
is not universal agreement that we OUGHT to worry about getting health
care to all. We don't even all agree that it is a problem that people
become bankrupt when someone in their family is struck by a disease.
People act as though it is a given that there is a problem with a
system that denies health care to the poor or with a system that
allows financial devastation to follow health devastation. What many
don't realize is that there are people (I would find it hard to
believe that Rush is alone on this) who don't see any problem with
these things.

One thing I'm sure you'll agree with is that overreacting can make things worse.

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Of course, but I've seen nothing in the plans being debated that I
think would be worse than doing nothing.

"But she couldn’t add John to her plan because of his pre-existing condition."

This is his primary problem, the condition preventing him from getting insurance. It is discriminatory, and has been applied to pregnant women, and people with high blood pressure, and others because of their weight.

Let's urge Congress, and the President, to focus on solving this aspect, instead of exploiting it politically. Seems like a smaller fix than increasing the bureacracy, taxes, government expenses, and criminalizing or penalizing being healthy and not needing to buy health coverage.

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