Ism Health Insurance

A healthy argument that might sicken you

By next spring, we should know whether President Obama's signature Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will stand on its own or fall for being unconstitutional.

Some federal district courts have found the provision in it that requires people to purchase health insurance - or be fined - to be unconstitutional. Other courts at the same level have found no problems with the provision.

Rozen writes: "Common sense says that if government can require you to buy car insurance, and it obviously can, then it can require you to buy health insurance."

Really? Rather than common sense, I think it's terrible logic. I could ride a bike, walk, run, carpool,or even take one of the newly wrapped City of Pullman/Wazzu buses to get from point A to point B.

Being forced to purchase health care insurance simply because one is living is a whole different ball of wax. The single alternative to living is not the same as the numerous alternatives to car insurance.

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I’m a doctor. That’s not quite enough. Some might take that to mean I’m a “Doctor of  Philosophy”. A PhD. In fact, I was rudely thrown out of graduate school. I asked to at least use the office for the summer but they said, “No.”. I needed to pack all my stuff and be out by afternoon. While packing my desk I found a woman’s earring underneath but that’s another story.

No, what I really mean is I’m a “MEDICAL” Doctor. In other words, you can come to me with your ailment, I can either diagnose them or tell you you need more serious help and recommend a specialist (for instance, if your finger has been accidentally amputated by a lawnmower , then I am NOT the guy to sew it back on. You need to go to a hospital where they have sewing machines for that sort of thing) and I can recommend treatment for you: take 5 of these pills, for instance, and call me in a week and avoid a diet that is high on carbs for at least this week.

Wait a second? I’ve read through all of this blog. James DID NOT ONCE ever mention going to medical school.

Yeah? So? If you came to me with a headache, for instance, I would ask you a bunch of questions. Did you fall? Did someone hit you? Are you vomiting? Then I would take an ophthalmoscope (that little miner’s light where the doctor says, “now open wide” and a bright light shines directly into your eyes”) and I would  look at the back of the eye  (“the fundus”) to see if I can detect any swelling in the brain or any brain tumors. A simple check on the Internet will show many examples of pictures of a swelled brain compared with an unswelled brain. I might do an EEG also to see if there’s anything abnormal. If I see anything abnormal that requires immediate surgery or a neurologist then I would send you off to a specialized hospital. Else, take two aspirin and call me in the morning.

That wasn’t so hard, right? But to do that I need about 12 years of education and go about $300,000 in debt and then pay massive malpractice insurance. And not only that, what if your headache was the result of an ear infection or an eye infection (easy to tell by various methods that are easily found via Google)? I would have to prescribe you an antibiotic.

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