Letters to the Editor
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Three kinds of lies
As Mark Twain allegedly said, "There are three kinds of falsehoods: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
To which I add a fourth: Conservaboob discussions of health care.
Harry/Louise there pulls out the Rush Limbaugh-style crap about huge waits. That's all lies, damned lies and conservaboob annecdotes.
What is TRUTH is that today 1) hospitals charge non-insured people full price, while giving price cuts to insured patients 2) insurance companies find hundreds of ways to deny coverage 3) my daughter had a cancer when she was 2, and might be uninsurable for her life 4) there are no laws against genetic discrimination 5) 17-20 % of all health care dollars are spent on administration 6) many physicians have to employ a full-time person to juggle forms 7) insurance companies routinely contest the charges that physicians send them.
We have tried the "free market" for health care, and it is a miserable and total failure.
It's time to stop listening to the conservaboobs, and go to
a full 100 % of the population expansion of Medicare. The conservaboobs have had their chance, and just like every other area, they have demonstrated that they are MISERABLE FAILURES.