Health Care Reform with a Mandate is the answer. I am sorry the question was.

The question was and still is how to provide Health Insurance for millions of Americans who are uninsured. The reason why we have this issue is because most Americans Health Insurance is connected to their employment. Some of the uninsured are no longer employed and Cobra is too expensive. Others are employed but their Health Insurance is too expensive and simply cannot afford it.

It is not Health Care that needs reform. It is cost, access, and availability of Health Insurance that needs reform. Philosophically Health Care is no different than determining which car to buy but one must first have some money in order to make that decision. In this case money inclusive of applicable discount is Health insurance.

Health Care is the availability of Goods and Services including buildings and equipment whose sole purpose is to preserve, maintain, and prolong life. Health Insurance is the free or affordable access to Health care. I am sorry the question was.

Health Care reform as currently constituted is the unproductive result of answering the wrong question. As in any examination in school or in the hospital operating room, if you answer the wrong question or diagnose the problem incorrectly the result will be unproductive or deadly.

Americans who have perfectly good Health insurance are unhappy. Simply put they did not need any intervention or tampering with their choice. Americans who did not and still will not have Health insurance because they simply cannot afford it are outraged because Mandate is not the answer. For those who are having a problem with the word Mandate, the kindergarten definition is forced.

Millions of Americans are without Health Care because they cannot afford it. However, lawmakers have found it smart legislation to mandate that those people have insurance and that if they do not purchase coverage they will be fined. It seems to me, that such logic is tantamount to going from the ridiculous to the sublime.

The logic of such legislation says that if John Brown cannot afford Health Insurance for a mere $20 then we should fine him $30 for not being able to afford coverage and we should keep checking and fine him $30 each time we discover that he has not purchased coverage. How interesting, I thought the Health Care debate was about providing coverage and not mandating coverage.

The last time I looked in the Random House, Heritage, or Oxford English Dictionaries the concepts of Mandate and Provision were very different. Perhaps, the Webster Dictionary has them as being the same. In essence we went to the table to talk about providing health insurance and left the table Mandating health care. So we went to discuss the circle and left talking about the Square.

The Health Care Reform is a Dull investment in time, 2000 pages of unrequited remedy, and a demonstration of ineffective Governance 101; foreword being “How to go from the ridiculous to the sublime”. Answering the wrong question generates unproductive results. Health Care Reform with a Mandate is not the answer.

The question was and still is how to provide Health Insurance for millions of Americans who are uninsured.

That’s all for this edition of Your Politics My Hustle

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