By DONNA DUBINSKY
February 19, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/opini ... insky.html
THIS isn’t the story of a poor family with a mother who has a dreadful disease that bankrupts them, or with a child who has to go without vital medicines. Unlike many others, my family can afford medical care, with or without insurance.
Instead, this is a story about how broken the market for health insurance is, even for those who are healthy and who are willing and able to pay for it.
The new health care reform legislation is not perfect. Nothing that complex could be. But I have no doubt that the system is broken and reform is absolutely essential. If we are not going to have universal coverage but are going to rely on employer plans, then we must offer individuals, self-employed people and small businesses a place to purchase insurance at a reasonable price.
If members of Congress feel so strongly about undoing this important legislation, perhaps we should stop providing them with health insurance. Let’s credit their pay for the amount that has been paid by the taxpayers, and let them try to buy health insurance in the individual market. My bet is that they all would be denied. Health insurance reform might suddenly not seem to them like such a bad idea.
说实在的，我真心希望所有投票给共和党与茶包党的每个人都被扔到free market上自己去买保险。请不要跟我说民主党也如何如何，支持&投票共和党的民众，至少没有权利要求政府（即其他纳税人）给自己的孩子发放低利率的高等教育学生贷款，也没有权利失业了坐等政府发给自己失业救济金，更没有权利期待生病了还有健康保险补贴或者坐在公立医院里等着免费救治。否则就是 hypocrites.
