C-RATS
In the last batch of mail, we received a notice from the administrative office of our health care plan that an Oct. 2006 claim, apparently for something done or ordered by my endocrinologist, had been denied in full, leaving us owing more than $100. No explanation of what the code meant, no explanation of why it was denied. Now I’ll have to navigate through a major medical center telephone system to find several people who have no idea either and would rather I weren’t calling in the first place. I will try to point out as politely as I can that I share this feeling, and thus we have the beginning of a basis for a mutually supportive relationship, so please don’t hang up.
I’m not mentioning personal details to wail the blues about my own medical tribulations—if you’re older than 50, I’m sure you have your own--but to point out something of relevance to our upcoming election and the decisions to follow: C-rats are no better than B-rats. Any time someone starts talking seriously about a unified health care system for this country comparable to those in countries where medical care is a right instead of a privilege, opponents of change start railing about how evil it would be to put your personal health care decisions in the hands of (shudder) Bureaucrats. Well, folks, I hate to be the one to bring you this news, but your health care is already in the hands of ‘crats, and I don’t mean Democrats. I mean Cubiclerats—and they’re every bit as inflexible, unimaginative, and inefficient as any Bureaucrat could be.
It never ceases to amaze me how a country where a majority of the populace takes pride in monotheism, in worshipping the One True God instead of nature spirits or a pantheon or idols, also worships an economic system that shatters things to smithereens then expects the Magic of the Marketplace to make it all reassemble and function. Does a fragmented health care system result in more jobs? Probably, though a lot of it makes the worst of the Depression Era Works Progress Administration look like Total Quality Management by comparison. Does it achieve better health care? No: among “industrialized” countries, says Infoplease, we excel only in such things as the murder rate, which is higher than in more than 70 countries. When it comes to infant mortality, more than 40 countries have a better record.
Why is the so-called pro-life community not up in constitutionally-sanctified-right-to-bear arms about this? Perhaps because the American murder rate is jacked up by the extremely poor performance of some Bible Belt states. They don’t call it the Deep South for nothing.
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