When It Comes to Health Care, If You’re Smart Enough To Drive…

So get this, my daughter is taking driver’s education this week. Now I’ve been driving around with her for a year, going gray, losing hair, and generally clinching my buttocks. I am actually quite pleased that once the classroom course is over, she will be foisted off on some professional instructor who no doubt has already lost his or her hair and boasts buns of titanium.

 But this is not an article about buttock flexing or particularly about driving. It is really more about the mentality in Government that Americans are unable to take care of themselves when it comes to healthcare.

I want to know why is it the Government believes that pretty much every Tom, Dick, and Bubba is responsible enough to drive a car, yet not smart enough to manage their own health and health care?

I mean an automobile is an enormous responsibility. Huge amounts of information have to be assimilated just to be able to earn the privilege of stepping in front of the camera and have some surly DMV employee snap the crummy mug shot that gets put on your drivers permit. Then they let you get behind the wheel of a multi-thousand dollar piece of precious metal and plummet down the highways and byways while talking on the phone, applying mascara, reading the paper, and hopefully dodging fellow citizens. I mean, if you can shop at Wal-Mart you can pretty much get a drivers license (I rarely drive by one with out stopping in).

Yet. Yet the same folks who are capable of driving a car are not capable of taking care of themselves. Come on people; what’s wrong with this picture?

 I am of the decided opinion that every person with a driver’s license has the mental capacity to tend to their health, and needs to be contributing to their own health and health care. Pretty simple huh?

I think we are smart enough to drive our own health care. Consumer DRIVEN Health Care so to speak. Now there’s a novel concept.