And This Applies To Whom, Exactly?
Posted on June 23, 2009 by andrew
Apparently, it’s a big deal that President Obama is walking back from his pledge that the health care reforms he signs into law will not force anyone to lose their existing coverage if they prefer that coverage to whatever might be created by the reforms. Now, I’m not going to say that the president should violate his promise or anything like that (although his response to the charge is sufficient to convince me that he’s not planning to violate his promise in the first place), but I do have to wonder how many Americans are satisfied with their current coverage. Who thinks that their current health insurance is both priced fairly and provides enough coverage? I’d say that I’m happy with the coverage provided by my insurance, but I doubt that the price is particularly fair considering the unbalanced insurance market and the absurd sums of money devoted to profits for the medical-industrial complex (and I also wonder, in the back of my mind, if my coverage would be genuinely sufficient were I to face an unexpected severe illness or injury, considering the horror stories I’ve heard regarding other seemingly sufficient insurance plans). I suppose there must be some Americans who do like their current insurance plans, but I have a suspicion that the number of those people is being vastly overstated in much the same way that the media conversation assumes large numbers of middle class Americans will be affected by a tax hike that in actually affects only those households earning over $200,000 per year.
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