Unmitigated Health Care Disaster

At my job, I work with medical care providers and medical insurance companies on a daily basis. The system is truly overburdened already with excessive rules and convoluted procedures which are intended to comply with sate and federal regulations. (For example the HIPAA -Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, EURISA -Employee Retirement and Security Act, State workers compensation laws, and the state insurance commission regulations.) Any new law, especially federal law, spawns a new bureaucracy and makes plenty of work for thousands of lawyers, (work that they often would prefer not to have to do.) Everything takes longer that it should and costs more that it should.

In spite of the problems, the attorneys, government bureaucrats, care providers, and insurance companies have worked out a system that is far from perfect, but which functions. It has evolved to solve the difficulties in providing and paying for health care. If a new federal medical law is passed, it would create yet another system that is superimposed upon it. The result will be an unmitigated bureaucratic disaster.

When I started this blog, I was going to call it Brave New World, which would be an ironic reference to Aldous Huxley’s book by that name. Actually, Aldous Huxley’s title is an ironic reference to a line from Shakespeare. He was writing about a future society where a totalitarian regime guided by utopian theories of how to change man, creates big mess. In fact a ‘dystopia.’ Mr. Huxley was of course being ironic himself and what he was really talking about was a chicken shit new world. I decided to cut the irony and just call it what it is. See this link to an informative essay about Huxley and Brave New World: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/bravenew/context.html A quote from the essay: “Much of his work deals with the conflict between the interests of the individual and society… These themes reached their zenith in Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932. His most enduring work imagined a fictional future in which free will and individuality have been sacrificed in deference to complete social stability.” The BHO administration and his Party, Central Committees, Commissars, and propaganda is just what Huxley had in mind.