Re: Re: [asa] health care

While a lot of the details of health care plans are outside the scope of science-religion discussions, I don't think the whole area is. 1st, Christianity has a lot to say about concern for the physical welfare of individuals and society. 2d, the costs of health care in the US today have a lot to do with its costs.

& on this, there's a quite good article in the September Atlantic on health care in the US. 2 major points the author makes are obvious in retrospect but get inadequate attention. 1st, we rely on health insurance to an unreasonable extent, expecting it to pay for routine procedures as well as emergencies. Can you imagine, the author asks, expecting your car insurance to pay for an oil change or tune-up? 2d, in consequence, health insurance companies, not people who are treated for illnesses or accidents, are the real "customers" of health care providers. In some cases hospitals or doctors won't tell a patient ahead of time what a procedure would cost because they prsumably won't be paying the bill.

Shalom,
George

---- "John Burgeson (ASA member)" <hossradbourne@gmail.com> wrote:
> If I did not think it was, I would have refrained from posting it.
>
> I agree that it is more "Christian" than science though.
>
> To the extent that it a reprehensible practice, it seems to be clear
> that it must be opposed.
>
> For instance: A woman is punched out by her husband and goes to the
> hospital for repair to her broken jaw. If she identifies her husband
> as the cause, she will get no insurance coverage. If she says it was
> just an accident, she will. So she lies, and another jerk goes free.
>
> On 9/24/09, Jack <drsyme@verizon.net> wrote:
> > This thread is not even close to being on topic is it?
> >
> >
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Received on Thu Sep 24 14:43:30 2009