Comments on: “Yes, We Can All Be Insured” http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2007/08/03/yes-we-can-all-be-insured/ Issues that matter and resources for white collar workers of any profession or employment status. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:18:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dan V http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2007/08/03/yes-we-can-all-be-insured/#comment-30377 Dan V Fri, 03 Aug 2007 21:44:46 +0000 http://www.unitedprofessionals.org/blog/2007/08/03/yes-we-can-all-be-insured/#comment-30377 Why is it that those who like to talk about rationing health care always talk in terms of who or which illnesses will or won't be "insured" or "covered?" This is an attempt to deflect the real health care decisions onto so-called faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats in the private and lucrative insurance companies. It would have been much more credible for Ms. Bryant Quinn to speak not in terms of the insurance industry, but rather in terms of actual health care delivered to actual Americans. We don't need insurance. What good has insurance, by itself, ever done for anybody except the insurance companies? Ms. Bryant Quinn, speak to me not of insurance. Speak, instead, of the illnesses that will or won't be relieved, and of the lives that will or won't be saved. I prefer listen to those who take responsibility for their positions even when those positions might have a life-threatening affect on their own sons and daughters who may not have the good fortune of being in your apparently high economic class. Why is it that those who like to talk about rationing health care always talk in terms of who or which illnesses will or won’t be “insured” or “covered?” This is an attempt to deflect the real health care decisions onto so-called faceless and unaccountable bureaucrats in the private and lucrative insurance companies.

It would have been much more credible for Ms. Bryant Quinn to speak not in terms of the insurance industry, but rather in terms of actual health care delivered to actual Americans. We don’t need insurance. What good has insurance, by itself, ever done for anybody except the insurance companies?

Ms. Bryant Quinn, speak to me not of insurance. Speak, instead, of the illnesses that will or won’t be relieved, and of the lives that will or won’t be saved. I prefer listen to those who take responsibility for their positions even when those positions might have a life-threatening affect on their own sons and daughters who may not have the good fortune of being in your apparently high economic class.

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