what could be worse than blogging about healthcare reform? nothing. here goes nothing.
those TV infomercials that advertise the "jazzy" are pretty much all you need to know about healthcare. how many people with electric wheelchairs really need them? when the government pays, we will never know. i'm not against electric wheelchairs. i'd kind of like one. i'm against giving them for free to whoever says they need them.
i love double whoppers with cheese. if i had a heart attack today, i'd want one tomorrow. i'd rather continue to eat whoppers and take a subsidized cholesterol drug than eat a salad. if i were paying for the cholesterol drug, i could probably choke down something leafy.
the point is that when there is no individual cost, there is no need for the individual to change behavior.
the other point--one that i can't believe no one is making--is that the american lifestle has a HUGE impact on health. We eat terrible foods and are fat. That's at least part of the reason we are on the low end of cross-national medical studies.
