Gary ChewHealthcare financial analyst, Tulsa, OK
As debate rages over solutions to America’s healthcare insurance challenges, some promoting privatization, some promoting government controlled healthcare, and some simply criticizing one or the other without offering any solution at all, let’s relax for a moment and not forget what we all have in common: we all want great health at a price that we can all live with. Part of achieving that goal begins of course with healthy personal lifestyle choices: eating right, exercising regularly, restraint & discipline regarding things that we know can harm us, choices that promote emotional wellbeing, etc.
Concerning health insurance for when one needs attention for other health concerns and problems beyond what we can control, and how to best provide that insurance, it is an interesting question that has arisen regarding even if we have the best possible solution to our healthcare woes out on the table for consideration, would we accept it? In a recent article entitled “Get Same Tax Break as Your Boss” by Thomas C. Patterson in the East Valley Tribune, concerning President Bush’s healthcare plan, Mr. Patterson writes, “the plan’s main defect is probably its sponsor. To partisanship blinded politicians, it seems unthinkable the president could have a sound idea and it panics them to think he may get credit for it. For those with a more pragmatic bent, the plan is worth a hard look.”
This is a great point that deserve consideration if the healthcare debate is going to have maximum usefulness. What is more important: healthcare, or who decides which solution is adopted? Debate can be healthy if in unity it is used as a tool to get to the best possible solution. Debate is unhealthy if used simply to manipulate, gain control for control sake, and divide Americans in the process.
Regardless of our personal view of a healthcare solution, perhaps the first thing needing treatment is not our health, but our honesty with ourselves.
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