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Yes, I know that is redundant, and the operative word is "fool," but there can be no other word for those who believe that "health care reform," as proposed by those in government, is anything but the sheerest of folly. They ARE fools. It is the first and most immutable law of project planning that one may control any two of three aspects--cost, quality, and quantity (or time)-- of the project and those two will control the third. Therefore...
1. Try to control cost and quantity-- the "national health care" option where everybody gets health care for "free"-- and quality plummets and we all die.
2. Try to control quality and cost-- the "best practice reform" now being touted-- and the quantity of care available drops to where nobody gets care and we all die.
3. Try to control quality and quantity-- the "universal coverage" option where everybody gets deluxe insurance paid by the taxpayers-- and costs skyrocket out of control and we all die, of overtaxation.
These foolish politicians believe they can control all three. But they (and we) need look no further than the Medicare system to know what fools they are. Medicare costs are out of control, despite paying only about a third of most charges. Already, some doctors are refusing to treat Medicare and Medicaid patients-- "quantity" is dropping. Their other choice is to provide care that isn't needed, sometimes called "trolling for warts," to add to the bill, thus dropping the overall quality of care. So attempts to control all three means that all three suffer! This is the system these political unqualified-for-anything-else geniuses want to do MORE of. Fools!
Fortunately there is a solution, though the politicans are too foolish to think of it, which is to cease trying to control ANY of the three, and let the free market work it out. Horrors! Can you imagine what would happen if people could buy health insurance policies that covered only what they wanted, from any willing insurer, and took it to a doctor of their choice, who treated them for what ailed them and nothing more? Mon Dieu! as they say in Quebec where the best health care is prayer. Costs would plummet, quality of care would improve, and more people would be able to afford the insurance or the health care itself (they are NOT the same thing, (see "Stating the Obvious"). But that would mean giving up CONTROL, literally, of people's lives, and that our lords and masters aren't willing to do. Fools they are, and dangerous fools at that.
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