A Transfer of Health Care

In my first post, I was inquiring about the number of uninsured. The number I keep hearing in the news these days is 47 million. In that post, I challenge that number. The number seems to be valid except that some of those individuals are choosing NOT to be covered. A government health plan will REQUIRE that they pay a premium (to an ins. co. or to the gov't) to be covered.

In a later post, I questioned the use of the term "Death Panel." I showed in the various parts of the bill that there will be government controls on the allocation of care through Comparative Effectiveness, Quality Adjusted Life Years, and Health Information Technology (HITman). HITman will determine whether or not you get a needed procedure.

What we accomplish with government health care can be easily stated. We will be reducing the cost of healthcare at the elderly and disabled level and increasing it at the younger (uninsured) level. It will be nothing more than a trade off. Someone does not get health care.