TGIF and one more thing about health care reform

Posted on | May 15, 2009 | Comments Off

It’s Friday, it’s a clear and bright and sunny day in mid-May (after a week of the typical spring rain), and I’m making plans for how to spend my working day out of doors.

But before I go …

There’s a lot of people talking about health care reform lately. It’s a very complex issue with a lot of stakeholders possessing varying degrees of noise-making skill.

These people and those people are saying that this and that ought to or ought not to be included in any efforts at reform.

I only have one thing to say.

I think that, while a lot of people make a case for all Americans having a basic right to health care, not enough people are yelling about another basic right all Americans ought to have.

Every American citizen ought to have the right to pay for their medical care in whatever way works best for them.

That means, if a family prefers to pay their medical providers themselves rather than hiring an insurance company to do it for them, they should be permitted to do that, without prejudice.

People should not be forced to assume additional expenses in order to finance a purchase if their financial circumstances allow them to cover it without financing. Said family should not be required to ensure the continued viability of the insurance industry.

And our nation’s leaders should not be hanging its citizens out to dry in order to preserve the profits of the insurance (or any other) business.

Please, folks. No insurance mandates.

That and … Thank God It’s Friday.

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