Right Thinking From The Left Coast
"To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing,
if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained?"
-- Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Healthy Debate
by Lee

Originally posted at my temporary Blogger site.

Apologies for the lack of posting today.  I have been filling out a new application form for some better health insurance.  When I started back at work I was presented with an option to join the company HMO or keep the money for myself and buy my own insurance.  Since HMOs suck, I decided to buy my own.  I found a great PPO plan at Blue Cross for about $335 a month, but the application form is about 30 pages long.  They want to know the first time you ever scratched your ass, and who your doctor was at the time.  I can’t remember the details of half the shit they’re asking me.  I’ve spent maybe, oh, 8 hours doing this so far.  It’s unbearable. 

Note to lefties:  see how this works?  I could have gotten “free” insurance through my employer, but the insurance they offered sucked.  Rather than whine to the government about how Uncle Sam should be providing me with free goodies from the ample government teat, I decided to (gasp!) buy my own!  Now, before any of you gets your delicate little panties in a wad, note that the $335 a month is for the top of the line program that Blue Cross offers.  I’ve got their price list in front of me, and there are a number of programs starting at under $100 a month.  In other words, anyone who wants health insurance should be able to afford it themselves, and those who cannot—the true indigent among us—can already get healthcare through Medicare and other programs.

I wonder how many of the much-ballyhooed “40 million people without health insurance” we hear so much about are people who actually can’t afford it, versus people who could afford it but decided to buy a new iPod or a pair of fly-ass Nikes instead.  In other words, people whose biggest healthcare problem is an inability to manage their money.

Posted by Lee on 11/20/05 at 11:52 PM in Health Care  • (1) Trackbacks • Permalink • Discuss this in the forums
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