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What’s all this fighting about?, Pt.14 – Mr. O’s health insurance/care vision vs. Mr. Mc’s

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Now, let’s spend a little time examining Mr. Mc’s vision for health insurance/care reform. This seems in contrast to that of Mr. O. Mr. O’s vision is to provide adequate health insurance for all Americans for the wellbeing of our nation. In order to accomplish this, certain conditions must be met. The health insurance/care system which can deliver that must provide Medical Security, Affordability, Portability and Sustainability. The system we currently use has none of these.

Absent from Mr. Mc’s vision seems to be the goal to ‘provide adequate health insurance for all Americans for the wellbeing of our nation’. Does his vision focus on the need to address the 22,000 who will die this year for lack of health insurance and the 73 million in serious jeopardy of being ‘next on the list’? Or does it reflect the attitude that the crises is not all that important, health insurance is something ‘most of us’ can take for granted? We don’t have any specific answers for that yet.

What we do know is that Mr. Mc’s direction is ‘less and less government involvement’. Sally submits that the “government-administered programs would be reserved for the truly needy and those who are unable to obtain private [health] insurance.”

How does this respond to the 25 million Americans with inadequate health insurance, many of whom are worse off than those with no health insurance? Who, exactly are these ‘truly needy’? Are these the people who Mr. Reagan claimed don’t exist? We don’t know. Since these critical answers still remain vague, at best, it will be important to get some specifics before ‘buying the ranch’. For greater background in what we do know, please refer to the article series entitled “The Proactive Health Care Approach”

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