by Laura Conaway


A cartoon supporting a public option for health insurance.

Several listeners have objected to Monday's podcast comparing health insurance to an all-you-can-eat buffet. Bradley Smith joins a few of you in recommending the video pitch for a public health insurance option. Smith writes:

I have a cavity so I go to a dentist and get a filling. I cut my leg so I go to a doctor to get stitches. I break my arm and get it put in a cast by a doctor. I want to have unprotected sex with my wife and I have a vasectomy.

I DO NOT "OVER CONSUME" HEALTH CARE. NOBODY I HAVE EVER MET "OVER CONSUMES" HEALTH CARE.

 

However, I personally know DOZENS of people who "UNDER CONSUME" health care. I am shocked and disgusted by the implication of your all you can eat analogy. My job as a patient is to select a competent physician and work with him to achieve wellness. IT IS NOT MY JOB AS A CONSUMER TO DRIVE DOWN COSTS!!! For God sake could you please acknowledge the real problems faced by Americans as they negotiate an inefficient and bureaucratic health care system?

Find out where the real waste is by watching this short and informative video here [Ed.: Embedded above.]

Gotta run. I'm going to "Get as Many Colonoscopy Surgeries as you Care to have Night" at the local hospital.