Healthmare

While we do not have a single payer system, the rest of the civilized world and parts of what used to be the uncivilized world do have such things.

Let us talk about real value and competition, because I would like my Right-side friends to hear this one thing---and only this one thing---and comment on this ONE point, so please don’t go off on Obama or the threat of Socialism or why there should not be a mosque at the World Trade Center Site (though, I do not believe there should be ANY religious architecture at the World Trade Center Site.)

Okay, this is my opinion: WE DO NOT HAVE AN EFFICIENT MOBILE WORKING FORCE because people are stuck in jobs that suck (if they are working at all) for the health benefits. This is such an arcane way of running a society.

It can easily take a month to adjust to a new job and to have benefits kick in. Or, one can move to another state looking for work (because, say, a teacher hears that they really need teachers in North Dakota) and while on the hunt, where does one get health insurance? And don’t say COBRA because it often is so expensive and has such problems when you cross state lines, that the only thing you can guarantee yourself is catastrophic, sort of. I have been through this.

So, you get a timid work force, a bunch of people who do not take risks, because they are afraid to be without health insurance. This creates anxiety. Thus, workers are enslaved to THE PAST.

Meanwhile, in France, China, Germany, etc., you can just up and go wherever you need to work. And your health care goes with you because it’s “the cloud”. This is so easy. And it creates a nimble culture. Why would we not want this?

So, my friends on the Right, in terms of pure math, and spare me the anger and the diatribes about Obama being born on Mars and wanting to turn your dog into a Muslim, but using math, tell me what is the upside of being able to compete globally with the work forces of other great countries when we are not as mobile, when our working people are slow, cautious, afraid to take risks and, well, as it turns out, fat and diabetic from their sessile, barker lounger, non-robust existences?