"No cut, bruise, scrape, or illness is exactly alike." Well, OK, hooray for Mr. Moran having stated the obvious. But is the treatment for each cut, bruise scrape or illness individually taylored by medical intervention, and ergo, insurance plan? Let's see, you have an elevated white count, fever, vomiting and severe right lower quadrant pain, and the radiologist says there is inflamation of the appendix. So, are there an array of treatment options, one to fit the individual situation, or is there only one reasonable option? No, the fact is, there is only one medical option, and the option that fits all, and that is surgery for an appendicitis.
A surgery that any American is entitled to. Mr. Moran's deriding "one size fits all," when it comes to most medical care, is a red herring.
Gosh, a cut that gapes open, the options are sutures, staples, super glue, or butter-fly bandages.
Can't get to or afford a physician, guess you get butterfly bandages. The latter is what I got when I stuck my hunting knife in my leg when I was nine.
Now, here is the really absurd and dishonest part of Mr. Moran's piece in The El Dorado Times. "We need to provide incentives to empower low-income families to retain or purchase private health insurance.”
Oh, really? And how are we going to provide incentives or empower this? Mr. Moran is dreadfully short on ideas here, something you folks should be nailing him on. How is he proposing to do this?
Competition?
Well, I switched from CRL to a more competitive BC/BS plan two years ago; $2,500 individual deductible, $5,000 family deductible, and my premium for myself and three children is just short of $1,000 monthly. Now, pray tell, in what universe is a low-income family going to be able to pay $12,000 yearly in health insurance?
Folks, it makes me angry. You are the ones obligated to start asking the difficult questions of Mr. Moran. You are the ones who need to ask him to explain the absurdities of what he says.
Again, this is not an issue of being conservative or liberal, it is an issue of dealing with reality.
Doug Mould
Benton
