Poison Pill
March 14, 2006
Marilyn and I are a pair of septuagenarians busy at costing you taxpayers a bundle of money.
Citizens everywhere desire unrestricted access to state-of-the-art technologies. Increasingly, they insist on choice and control, too. Yet they are unwilling to pay what those things cost. People demand as a right the best health care money can buy, delivered in the way that best suits them, expense be damned. All that, and the price must be affordable. Nowhere can this self-contradictory demand be satisfied.
Is it politically possible to design a health care system that would make us think twice before we sign on to yet another expensive treatment? As it now stands, I don’t even know what our care is costing someone, and that’s not right. History suggests that major changes usually come about only as the result of a crisis containing a lot of unpleasantness for everyone and that demand change - or else! That hasn’t happened yet, and for the sake of our children and their progeny I dread the prospect.
Dave, hanging on to his health at your expense.
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