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Right to Adequate & Affordable, Pt.2 – ‘Straight-Talk, Lost’

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The Presidential debates are a bad joke right of a job interview forum.  In a genuine debate, it’s impossible for a squirmy candidate to sidestep and important issue and move on.  A debate is intended to hone in on plausibility by narrowing an issue down to the core truth (‘truth-ometers’ are a must, here).  In the dismal absence of such a venue, the American people must speak up and demand more specifics.  We need to lose this health insurance gloss and see what the product claims to deliver.  Does the health insurance system proposed meet the minimum requirements to fix our crisis?  Blind faith leads to slavery and tyranny.  Only evidence-based faith can save us.  The health insurance/care crisis can never resolve itself.  Neither can it be resolved in a ‘mosh-pit’ or  on a Wall Street trading floor.

It should not be that the devastated economy eclipses health insurance issues when they are tied so inseparably.  Family budgets are being wrecked over medical expenses.  Health insurance/care costs must be brought under control.

A professor of political economy at Princeton University, Uwe Reinhardt, was asked it Mr. Obama’s health insurance/care reform proposal was ‘affordable’?  Mr. Reinhardt is one of the most trusted health care economists in our nation today.  He immediately responded with a ‘Yes’, but went on to advise that the question, itself’ is lacking.  A much more appropriate question would be ‘Can average American households afford not to have this plan?’  It may require that one little extra effort to see the subtle difference in these two questions.  But, after giving thought, it’s impossible to forget the difference.

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