Politicians and Lawyers Suck

It's time to get on my soap box again. We just received our AARP MedicareComplete health plan. Now keep in mind that this is a plan for "seniors" - some of which aren't playing with a full deck. The plan information is a 8.5 X 11 inch booklet of 220 pages! Chapter 1 Section 1.3 is entitled "What if you are new to the Plan? It includes this bit of advise - "We encourage you to set aside some time to look through this Evidence of Coverage booklet." Since when is a booklet over 200 pages?

It is not NEWS that our health care system is a mess! The average per capita spending is nearly twice as high as that of the next closest industrialized nation, yet other developed countries have longer life expectacy and lower child mortality rates. How did we get to this point?

One problem as I see it, is not having a single payer system. When you have a mixture of private insurers, numerous government programs, and greedy drug companies and health care providers and throw into the mix lawyers and politicians it only gets worse. The thousands of pages of legislation called health care reform will only add to the mess. Every politician wanting to give a piece of the pie to the lobbyist that wined and dined him or her as well as the lawyers that want to be sure they can earn their part by suing everyone in sight - creates the 220 page booklets that clog our mailboxes and destroys our forests.

Every politician and lawyer should be forced to work at Wal-Mart as a greeter and have no medical insurance. Every lobbyist should have to flip burgers at minimum wage and go without insurance. Maybe then they would BEGIN to understand the mess they have created!