Daily News Updates - Health Insurance News

Health Care – Anybody Care?, Pt.1 -- Someone else's problem.

Michael L. Millenson of the Washington Post has posted an article articulating the plight of the victims and, should-be subjects. That is, those almost-50 million Americans who don’t have health insurance. He speaks of our society’s undercurrent message in the music of rapper MIKE-E. Some of his lyrics are “You are among the masses/One of 47 million people without health care access . . . Focus on the laws that must be enacted/Because we know there are flaws in our health care practices.” The American Cancer Society has even sponsored a video. The video brings out the despair, frustration and feelings of those without health insurance and those effected. It is such a shame that our country with such pride of “Having it all together before the world” is in the dismal position of being the only developed country that can’t find a way to provide health insurance/care for all its citizens.

The underlying message that Mr. Millenson is trying to bring out is that, even with all the fine articles posted and all the other media coverage describing the plight of millions without health insurance, so very few of our huge population still under the seriousness. It’s like “Well, we have health insurance. They don’t have health insurance. It’s their problem, not ours”. This is the major obstacle to the fix. Those that have really don’t care very much about the hurting. It’s only every now and then, when medical costs spike, those with health insurance get scared when they notice the alarming rate of employers dropping health insurance or an economy doom with heavy unemployment surges gets close that they get concerned for a few days.

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