The Arrogance and Elitism of Government Health Care and Schools
September 16th, 2008 | by Brian Schwartz |On buying health insurance directly from an insurance company instead of through one’s employer, ABC News Medical Editor Dr. Tim Johnson states:
The idea that individuals are going to have enough knowledge and enough savvy and enough insight and, frankly, enough guts to make choices all by themselves is pretty much a pipe dream.
So I guess the 15 million peoplein the United States who have priavate non-group insurance are hallucinating? Has Dr. Johnson never heard of an insurance broker, or on-line resources of how to buy a plan? (Like this one, or this one.) Or that people shop for surgery?
Gosh, it’s a wonder that people who are stuck with their employer’s insurance “enough savvy and enough insight and, frankly, enough guts to make choices all by themselves” to accept the job offer in the first place. Let alone interview!
As Amy Menefee of the Galen Institute points out, ABC’s Web site claims that Johnson is “one of the nation’s leading medical communicators of health care information.” This humorous scene from the BBC show, Prime Minister about education and health care shows what Dr. Johnson is really communicating:
Brook Terry of the Texas Public Policy Foundation comments.
(Thanks to Paul Hsieh for suggesting I post the video here.)
