mikebrah

Healthcare 'Debate' Dominated by Shouting and Lobbies

John,

You suggest that people will take a more proactive interest in health care if they are financially motivated. But people are physically motivated to take a proactive interest in their health and have utterly and completely failed.

If people were as capable as you seem to think they are, then we wouldn't have this current housing/debt crisis. After all, our present situation essentially comes down to the average American not being able to manage a checkbook. People who make $50k/year and try to buy a $300k house are going to suddenly start making fiscally responsible choices about what's best for their health care? Really?

If the average American had even a modicum of the intelligence and discipline you suggest, then 30% of the nation wouldn't be obese and 70% overweight. The easiest, most effective reduction to health care would be for our nation TO BE IN GOOD HEALTH.

A simple 30 minute walk after dinner and consuming less than 3k calories per day would be an enormous reduction to our country's overall health care costs. I just find it hard to believe that these amorphous blobs who go to town hall meetings and yell, or sit at the tv and yell, or sit at the computer and yell are capable of the task at hand.

To me, the actual HEALTH of our nation is the most disturbing issue.

MM