Free Our Health Care WOW!!

Over the past almost 60 days, the link to the “Free Our Health Care NOW” petition has been the 5th most clicked link out of the 200 or so postings on this site.  Which means you (if you were one of them) helped contribute to the over 1,012,000 signatures to date on the petition.  I first stumbled across the petition in Forbes Magazine in early June, and several radio talk show hosts have helped blow the doors off this thing by encouraging folks to give some thought to their health care as well as the general and future health of our nation. 

Like a snowball down the side of a mountain, the engagement of the American public in the discussion around their future health care has been profound in my opinion, and the snowball has an enormous amount of momentum which will hopefully influence, in a positive and productive manner, the ultimate outcome of the debate.

If you have already taken a look at the petition and it represents a vision of healthcare with which you approve, I would encourage you to share it with as many friends and colleagues as possible (please feel free to send the link to this posting or straight to the petition).  If you have not yet seen the petition, have a look below and you can take it on your own from their.  Be a part of keeping  the momentum going through September and as long as the debate continues.

Over 1 million signatures.  I would say this is definitely a Free Our Health Care WOW kind of moment.

http://www.freeourhhealthcarenow.com

There’s No Free Lunch When It Comes To Health Care. No Matter What You Are Led To Believe.

Over the weekend, Bill Steigerwald, associate editor of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, did a nice opinion piece on the future of health care in America .  He interviewed John Goodman (not the actor) who is a leading policy expert on healthcare in America. 

We hear a lot about the European and Canadian health systems and there are those who believe we would be better off on those environments.  For, what for many people is likely a different perspective, I would suggest they read the article.   At a super high level, as the onion of socialized medicine is peeled back, it has its drawbacks and in European countries where socialized medicine is the norm the math suggests it is a ticking time bomb.

Those who believe that health care should be free need to understand that there is no such thing.  Health care, comes at a high price to someone, no matter whether the patient is writing a check or not.

Goodman is an advocate for consumer driven health  and points out that over 12 million Americans already control their own health care dollars through high deductible health plans and and tools like HSAs.  He is a proponent of a market driven economy and market driven health care.

As stated many times on this blog before, personal responsibility will drive better health, smarter health care decisions, and lower health care costs.  If you are reading this blog and trying to figure out where you stand and where you are going  with your own health care, I would challenge you to click on any of the links in this article and learn more.