Not satisfied with crushing consumer choice by forcing everyone to buy health insurance, John Edwards is now advocating mandatory visits to the doctor:
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says his universal health care proposal would require Americans to go to the doctor for preventive care . . .
The justification for such unprecedented government intrusion into your life is your “responsibility” to hold down aggregate health care costs by properly maintaining your health:
. . . He says if Americans are going to choose to be in the healthcare system, they can’t choose not to go to a doctor for 20 years. He says they need regular checkups.
My only response to this is: John Edwards, keep your laws off my body!
[via Kevin, MD]
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Well, you’ll be pleased to know I go some way to agreeing with you, but only because screening well people is not based on evidence of effectiveness. However, the underlying problem of engaging people in preventive behaviour still exists, and should be a function of good primary care and health promotion, which you don’t have. My wife flew back from Chicago today, and reports that Americans are fatter on average than ever. If you don’t find a way of addressing this and other health time bombs all your market reforms will be even less effective, if that’s possible.
Posted 04 Sep 2007 at 4:47 pm ¶Post a Comment