It looks like we are on the subject of health freedom today. What I have observed over the past ten years is that people increasingly equate insurance coverage with medical care. That's sad.
In my view, it's a pathologically infantile sense of entitlement when people expect others to take care of them. Sad, indeed when Americans can afford their cars and car insurance and computers and iPods and cell phones etc. but expect somebody else to pay their bills if they get sick.
My view is that every responsible adult needs cheap catastrophic medical coverage - what used to be called Major Medical, with the deductible of your choice. Budget into your life the costs of your kid's broken arm and annual $120 camp physical - or don't have kids. If there's a big problem, the Major Medical will cover you. Like if you have a heart attack, break your back falling off a ladder, or if your kid gets shot in the eye with a BB gun.
I want to know what the Dems want to cover with their grand plan to "reduce" medical costs:
Will they cover Reike, massage therapy, homeopathy, acupuncture, chiropractic, crystal therapy, therapeutic touch, late-term abortion, breast enhancement, plastic and cosmetic surgery, hopeless chemotherapy and radiation therapy, eye movement therapy, light therapy, Chinese herbal medicine, hypnosis, social workers, bunion removal, in vitro fertilization, elective Psychoanalysis, alcohol rehab, penile implants, heart transplants, high colonic cleansings, liposuction, ingrown toenails and toenail fungus, Native Indian Soul Renewal, and liver transplants?
And do you want politicians making these decisions for you?
Me? I want the government 100% out of medical care and medical choices, because they have no idea what they are doing. No more of a clue than they know how to run GM - or the corner candy shop. I know what my private family policy covers. I chose it, I pay for it, and it's cheaper than the family's car insurance.
What the heck does the government have to do with these decisions, anyway?
