I am shedding some "lyte" today on weapons. The House Minority Leader, John Boehner, has rolled out the latest salvo in the battle over healthcare reform. Are you sitting down? It is....a chart.
You can see only a part of it above. But you can go to Time magazine's web site to be able to enlarge it and bask in its colorful glory. Jon Cohn also offers an alternative chart that shows the current system. They are both confusing, but the colors and graphics used by Boehner seem calculated to overwhelm and scare the average person. I mean consumer.
We are identified as consumers on Boehner's chart. This bugs me. News flash, spray-tan boy, we are citizens, not consumers. That label is very telling. It illustrates what I have been harping about; that the current for-profit medical management system views us as potential profit centers, not people.
And while Boehner has rolled out a chart of the Democratic plan, we have yet to see or hear of a viable Republican alternative. Why do these guys spend so much time on chatter and so little time on substance? Our current system only gives access to top notch care to those lucky enough to afford it. I bet if we took all the members of Congress off the government plan, and forced them to qualify for and pay for private insurance, we would see meaningful healthcare reform in record time. With the vaunted bipartisan support.
In the meantime, we are fed this drivel. But it makes nice wallpaper.
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