GUEST COLUMN: The real problem with health care as entitlement
By Derrick Wilburn; Derrick Wilburn | |
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The real problem with health care "insurance" in this nation is an issue of mental conditioning. You and I have been conditioned to believe that health care insurance is something that it is not. Or at least that it was not intended to nor should it be.
As is the case in so many other areas of our society, we all have been conditioned by the system to have an entitlement mentality toward health care insurance.
Insurance should be a safety net. Something that is there in the event the worst should happen. But instead, it has now become a sidewalk.
Compare health care insurance to automobile insurance. When you smack your car into another and the repair bill comes in at
Right now, the health care services consumer in this nation pays only about
When the mechanic tells you it's time for brakes, plus we may as well service your tranny while it's in, what's the first question you ask? Yet you go to the doctor and she says she'd like to send you to the lab or a clinic to draw some blood and have you pee in a cup so they can run a battery of tests, you don't ask the doctor, "How much is that going to cost?" Why don't you ask? Because you don't care. Someone else is paying for it. You're just going to show up at the clinic, present an insurance card, pay your
In this area of health care, we have lost the sense of self- reliance and personal responsibility we once had in this nation. Health care insurance should be there in the event you are stuck by lightning, run over by a bus, come down with gizzard cancer, etc. Not to cover a test to see if you're vitamin D deficient.
This system of everyone else pays for everyone's nonpayment runs directly into
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