Are we really being seen as reactionaries that pushing back after being fed bad information by those ole insurance companies, the Republican party, the astroturf Tea Party leadership or maybe lobbyists with their even darker agendas ? That could be the point of this cartoon. There certainly are some pretty radical charges and responses being thrown around by both sides! So why the confusion?
Some would see this confusion as being a ploy of the Administration to ram something through that is purposefully hard to understand and that is filled with landmines for us once we accept it. We know that many of our own representatives in D.C. haven't read the proposed bill and have relied solely on their staff's interpretations and their handler's outline of talking points.
Others, being more charitable will say that the benefits and procedures are too complex to understand for the layman and should be left for the professionals to sort out. These may be the same folks who are willing to allow the Federal government to have their way because the government is working in our best interests!
The State of Texas solved the complexity problem of Health Insurance policies some years ago by employing the Flesch–Kincaid readability test, a system that is available and one that could be used to take the mystery out of the proposed National Health plan benefits. Tomorrow I'll give you a more detailed explanation of this nationally respected approach to communication.
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