Michael Steele calls preventive care a "health police" conspiracy

[ck4829]

In response to a doctor asking how health care reform will "mandate" health care...

STEELE: Well you’ll get issued, Doc, you’re gonna issue, to your patients, a health care card that’s gonna be part of a national ID system that, you know, every time I charge something or use that card, it’s going to show up on a grid what I’ve done and what I have failed to do, according to the government plan. So the government will know whether or not I’ve had my physical at the appropriate time and then probably some health police will come knocking on my door telling me I’m now costing the system money because I haven’t, you know, gone and done my preventive care.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/19/steele-health-police/

Sounds like Steele is trying to kill 2 birds with 1 stone; the idea of health care reform AND preventive care.

It really sounds like he is trying to demonize the latter.

Do we want a "health police"? No.

But putting a special focus on preventive care would save Americans money, as well as their lives.

But how can insurance companies make a killing, oops, I mean a profit off of people NOT going to the hospital and having expensive treatments and operations?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I swear, that guy gets stoopider every day.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Whatever meds he's on they aren't working.

[get the red out]

3. Michael Steele needs health care

Mental health care.

[sandnsea]

4. My state insurance pool didn't cover check-ups

No kidding. They added them this last year, but when I first got it, no check-ups.

The insurance pool is for people with pre-existing conditions. You know, people who need check-ups because the pre-existing conditions might turn into something else.

We need some doctors out there talking about good health.

[Turbineguy]

5. I suspect those who wish

to ruin their health at the expense of the rest of us will still have the freedom* to do so.

Those who give up their freedom* do so voluntarily.



*= freedom in the repub sense.