NJ 101.5

As much as I love talking about the health care crisis, I am often put in the position of being asked ‘hard questions regarding health care reform. While I don’t mind doing this, it is nice, every once in a while, to be asked an easy question… a so-called ‘softball question’.

Case in point:

When I was speaking on NJ 101.5 a few weeks ago, and indicated that there were things that I favored about National Health Care Reform (i.e. ‘Obamacare’), the host, Dennis Malloy, tossed me a real soft ball – “Who’s going to pay for it?’

This question is a rallying point for those who are opposed to Health Care Reform (along with the ‘dead grandmother’ issue). However, I have a very simple and straightforward answer to this question – in both long and short versions.

The short answer is simple: “We are”.

Yup. A national health care plan will be expensive, and all of America will be forced to pony up their fair share to pay for it.

The long answer is equally simple: “We are. We are paying for it already. In fact, we are paying far too much for it. – much more then we could be paying inder a nationalized system.”

Don’t believe me? See for yourself. Drive by any US Hospital, any time of the day or night. It doesn’t matter where that hospital is, but if you can, drives by a hospital in a lower income area.

Do you know what you’ll see? Me neither.

However, I DO KNOW what you WON’T SEE - poor, uninsured people dying in the street because they were denied treatment. The fact is, hospitals treat a very large percentage of the uninsured. The costs for treating the uninsured are then passed into those of us with insurance, and we end up paying for that care with higher taxes and higher insurance premiums. And that ‘free’ health care is being supplied at the single, costliest place on the face of the planet for getting health care – the U.S. Hospital. Or, as I like to call it, “Home of the $6.00 Tylenol”.



Well, so long as this is on your dime, where would you rather have the uninsured buy their Tylenol – at the Hospital for $6 bucks a pop or at Wal-Mart where you can pay $2.00 for a bottle of 100? Yeah, me too. Now, extrapolate the Tylenol logic to the rest of the health care spectrum and you can see how a National Health Care System can potentially save every American a lot of money.

Yes, we’ll have to pay for it, but we’ll be paying a whole lot less then we are paying right now.

Obamacare is not perfect – far from it. In fact, there are a lot of unanswered questions that I would like to see answered before a National Health Care System is enacted. I especially would like to see freedom of choice in health care preserved, as well as additional safeguards that would keep third parties from abusing that system like they do with our current system.. But it is a step in the right direction.

It’s really that simple.


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