re: #403 yochanan

There is a problem with saying “rationed health care already exists.” (Which is true, don’t get me wrong.) With the system now, if your HMO or PPO tells you to pound sound you can always, if you can afford to do so, go have whatever you need done privately and pay for on your own. That’s not always ideal. Many cant afford to do so. Regardless I want that option to remain.

If, to play to Palin’s moonbattery for a second, some spooky panel tells me “no you cant have that procedure” I want to have the option for private recourse. If I can pay for it on my own I will. If I need help from my family, they will give it. If it means I have to go on Oprah and beg for donations to The Save ArchangelMichael Foundation to pay for it, then I will.

Any “reform” which makes this impossible, either directly by banning private practice, or indirectly via oppressive taxation or driving the costs of private health care up beyond the means of anyone poorer than Bill Gates, I will oppose, vehemently.