Daily News Updates - Health Insurance News

Sensible Definition of ‘Best Coverage’, Pt.1 – Health insurance priorities.

To follow up on the last health insurance article series entitled: “Mr. McCain’s Definition of ‘Best Coverage’”, we have some very good feedback in the form of ‘Comments’. First we hear from Jonathan Beckley, who is more concerned with priorities. His main message is that the priority is ‘the priority’ itself. Not ‘the change’. We shouldn’t even be thinking about ‘nicer health insurance’ for those who already have health insurance. We need to be thinking about the 45.7 million Americans who have no health insurance at all! Diversions away from that theme are just diversionary babble.

Jonathan notes that Mr. McCain’s focus seems only to favor those who already have health insurance. He remonstrates Mr. McCain’s supporters to remember that the crises that needs reform is not about “upper [rich, upper]/middle-class-white-[men]” with good jobs or “those selfish-minded enough to only consider how a new system will affect their own life.” Mr. McCain and his supporters need to fess up that the crises is really about:

1) The millions who are now unemployed,

2) The millions working minimum wage jobs which offer no health insurance benefits and

3) The millions who, with children, having to work 35 hr shifts at Walmart, so they won’t qualify for 'full-time' health insurance benefits.

He even includes the “65 yo obese, smoking truck drivers without the means to live healthfully.” This last comment incites heated debate about either leaving these people to “rott” (and die) or if they should be offered health insurance which promotes preventive support in ‘kicking the butt’, as they say, and excludes smoking-related care coverage for those who choose not to quit smoking.

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