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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (24008)	7/2/2012 4:31:17 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 42652

Don't take the risk basis out of insurance. Or, if we do, at least have the perspicacity and intellectual integrity to recognize that it's no longer insurance and quit calling it that. Why? Honesty in government seems to me to always be a good thing. When there is a concerted effort to convince the masses that "health insurance" is the same as "health care" (as there has been with regard to Obamacare), it boils down to manipulation through propaganda. We've seen this before -- in '92, the Clinton campaign coined the term "investment" as a synonym for "government spending" -- two entirely different things. Since then, the term "investment" is almost universally used to convince people they are getting something for their money that they aren't in fact getting. At the bottom line, these redefinitions of terminology amount to propaganda used to manipulate large numbers of people. This technique may be fine for North Korea, but here a little plain-speak seems more desirable. Call it what it is and let the chips fall where they may.

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