The Annoyance of Facts

Kaiser has had an interview with a former Government bureaucrat who states:

If the whole law goes down, the death rate in the United States will go up beginning in 2014. Because we know that the number of uninsured people will not go down, it will go up, and that growth in the number of uninsured people increases the number of people who die, so it’s pretty straightforward as far as I can tell. We’ll also have enormous chaos in the delivery system, but how that will play out exactly is hard to know. 

 What is the basis of that statement. People will still be served, no one will be turned away. What will be the cause of this increase. In addition since the law has not yet fully gone into effect, how can there be an increase based on no law if no law was in existence. I may be the Abelard of Health Care but his logic is empty!

He then continues:

As best as anyone can tell, the reaction to the health law has been founded in an extraordinary amount of misinformation about what’s actually in it and what it will actually do. And it seems to me there’s no better way of educating the public about what the law will do and what effects it will have than just actually proceeding to implement it. I think when people begin to see exchanges offering a range of subsidized insurance products, when they begin to see some of the other things that are happening and not happening as a result of the legislation, public opinion will catch up. 

 No perhaps I am not "anyone" but I did read each version and the last final one three times in detail as this blog demonstrates. It is a nightmare! I have repeatedly detailed line by line. And he has the gall to say that:

And it seems to me there’s no better way of educating the public about what the law will do and what effects it will have than just actually proceeding to implement it.

We saw that same arrogant attitude from Congress. It is no wonder that people are so opposed. And also if obesity causes Type 2 Diabetes and if Type 2 Diabetes is the major cost element in health care cost explosions then perhaps the man would show by example and take off the weight to reduce the risk.