What is your source for this? Some good ideas contained here — a lot of common sense.
I think we really have to admit as Americans that we take really poor care of our health as well. People smoke like chimneys, won’t watch their weight, refuse to be compliant with medications, drink like fish, are out of control non-compliant diabetics ... or a combination of all — is that MY fault? Should MY coverage go up for that? It’s not fair.
And how about all the elective surgeries ..the knee replacements — Just saw a scenario like this the other day on an 85 year old lady. We fixed her pacemaker and the NEXT DAY sent her into elective knee surgery. She ended up needing 4 units of blood, going septic, etc. But, heck, she’s 85 and WANTS that new knee ... if we deny the new knee, then she becomes more immobile and costs STILL go up for her care over time.
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Some good ideas contained here — a lot of common sense.
Thanks. I've written two books dealing with environmental policy. The first proposed a free-market environmental management system. Managing land is all about competing risks, so it was based upon using insurance to account for intangible or unpredictable risks out of which came a business method patent. Extending those ideas to a range of other societal problems wasn't that hard.
During the Bill Simon debacle in California, Arnold Schwarzenegger successfully sold the claim that there is such a thing as a "fiscal conservative" without social conservatism. As a result, I put together a booklet of such stuff about eight years ago in the hope that I could get people to understand HOW conservatism solves real societal problems.
Nobody would read it because it covered so many issues that it was too much to think about in one go. They'd start, get excited, and crash and burn. It was meant to be considered one issue at a time. I was hoping to empower grass roots activists with ideas that they could either print out and share or distribute by email but it just didn't get any traction. So I never finished it. This was just one of them.
It would have made good column or blog material, but I have too much on my plate to manage all that. Oh well.