… and, I might add to that headline, vice versa.
As if we needed more proof that our nation’s health care "system" is about as FUBAR as it can get, we learn that it is now playing a major role in our mating rituals.
The WSJ reported today that there’s a hot new trend in online dating: citing a preference for mates with employer-provided health insurance. Here’s the top of the story:
Christine Ferris is searching online for that special
someone. "I would like to meet a man who can relax and enjoy the woods,
the fog, the sea, the mountains," says her profile on dating site True.com. "Someone who can feel the wonder of nature. I am a romantic and you are too."Also, her ideal man should "have health insurance and use it."
Hey, and it’s not just women. A Castle Rock, Colo., man named Dan Schmedeman has his own business; he’s an independent home builder. And that’s the problem: His insurance costs too much. So his ideal gal fits this description:
"I’m looking for a woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to
ask for it…. One
with a nice smile and a healthy attitude, that can be open and
honest….A flat stomach and health insurance plan wouldn’t hurt
either."
Is this twisted or what? We’re the biggest, richest country in the world, and we’re the only advanced nation in which people are so desperate for medical security that they consider people who have it a turn-on.
We have got to get a handle on this, people.
Oh, and meanwhile, that same Journal front page had this story about how hospitals have started building only private rooms. It seems they finally figured out that patients got sicker having to room with some Typhoid Mary who loves to watch "Cops" at full volume 24 hours a day. So in this more pampered future, whose insurance — among that diminishing group that has insurance — going to pay for it? The story says that when there’s nothing out there but private rooms, they’ll have to pay. We’ll see, I suppose.
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As a service connected 100% disabled veteran, I got the health insurance “for me” covered. As far as a private room, I kind like the idea of telling war stories with fellow vets at the Dorn Center.
Dang that Agent Orange!
It’s not the benefits,it’s the endowments.
Where is Paul DeMarco when we need him? What happened to that guy? He was a centrist who went underground on us.
Take the lawyers out of the medical domain and everyone could afford insurance. The lawyers in the legislatures are hesitant to put any controls on the outrageous lawsuits filed against doctors. People who make mistakes in their jobs every day want to hit the lottery when a doctor makes a very human mistake.
My advice to the guy looking for the flat stomached woman – hey, when people lay on their back, everyone has a flat stomach. Think about that. haaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Repeal the tax laws which permit large corporations to deduct tax free benefits to their employees, and make everyone buy their own individual plan, instead of trying to game the system as the corporate and government employees do now.
The Sunday edition of The State had an article on pensions which should wake everyone up to the myth of a company retirement plan. The article avoided the even worse crisis in the unfunded state employee pensions.
It is time to replace every legislator, Congressman and Senator that is afraid to privatize all pensions and Social Security’s welfare promises into real individual accounts.
The first reform is to abolish the pensions of elected officials.