6 Cultural Reasons for Our Health Care Policy Mess

From FEE.org (Mar. 31):

1. The American middle class does not believe in saving up for health care expenses.
2. The American middle class does not believe in paying taxes in order to support people who are very poor or very sick. We are not Denmark.
3. Americans are not willing to say, “The proposed treatment for this problem is not worth the cost. The individual should accept lower-cost treatments and live (or perhaps not live) with the consequences.”
4. Americans, and especially health care providers, do not want to think of health care as a commodity.
5. Americans are not willing to give up being the “early adopters” of new treatments, which are often much more expensive when they first appear than when they have been available for many years.
6. Americans seem to be more willing to spend public money on medical services than on public health.

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Not only American’s are taught not to save for health care but not to save for retirement either. That’s what social security is for. It’s an entitlement. If Obamacare isn’t going to be replaced pretty soon it will be viewed as an entitlement too.

Basically, Big Gov is telling people us don’t plan for your future we’ll do that for you cause we are your Parents.