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Originally Posted by BigT
Thank you for providing a voice of reason.
This is not "healthcare reform," but rather "health insurance reform." It does not address any of the perverse incentives in our system or patient/physician attitudes that mainly drive our costs (granted, Medicare is slowly working on that). I can tell you from experience that having more access to health care can be a bad thing. The main problem, as I perceive it, is that people are comforted by not taking personal responsibility for their health and seek to look for external solutions or external forces that they can blame... rather than taking responsibility and exercising, eating right, and becoming psychologically healthy. Stanton Peele, one of my favorite psychologists, recently had a great blog post about the healthcare issue: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...ed-health-care |
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Peele could have saved himself time if he'd just written "People in this country are stupid". Look as this forum alone, proof and evidence be dammed, it means nothing to most people. It isn't even an issue of addiction like he claims, it's just simply that people get scared of things and when they do, they ignore evidence. Evidence may show that getting a prostate exam would do no good for a man, but then he reads or sees something on TV about it, gets sacred, and he's in the office the next day getting the exam.