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Health Insurance & Capitol Hill, Pt.2 – So many players, so little direction.

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The game board is very disheveled right now. We’ve got ‘would-be’ leaders being mum; we’ve got rivaling generals with an array of diverse directions and no focus on the main event. We’ve got 73 million victims who either have no health insurance or worse then no health insurance – ‘inadequate health insurance’. (To better understand the grave situation of the ‘underinsured’, please refer to the article series entitled “Hidden Dangers of Inadequate Health Insurance”.) We’ve got honest hard working teams, organizations and committees relentlessly learning and teaching us and we’ve also got dishonest hard working teams, organizations and committees relentlessly trying to mislead us. Where do we begin?

We may want to check the health insurance/care reform weather forecast. Jacob Goldstein, of the Wall Street Journal has posted a well-researched article on the blogs.wsj.com/health/ website. What was most striking to me was the intelligence of some of the blogs following. Until now, I’ve been hard-pressed to defend blogs to friends who maintain that “blogs are just idiots spouting-off”. I was very impressed with both the article and ‘some of’ the comments that followed. Mr. Goldstein first brings out the point that we are poised on the biggest health insurance/care reform transformation we have seen in years. As he notes, the divide is great between our two presidential candidates. But the meanwhile, as he also mentions that the Democrats already in office have been busy patching together their rendition of what the new health insurance/care system should look like. It stands alone in uniqueness and appears to be quite radical.

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