Neutral and Detached Healthcare? Just Ask NYC

Finally, some of the stimulus money is being spent. And on something useful!
The government dished out one billion dollars to various cities to enable their law enforcement agencies to hire extra personnel.

Brilliant! Fantastic! I mean this is a great way of spending the much awaited funds: creating new jobs while keeping us safer.

But get this: guess who was left out? New York City! You know, the city that has been and continues to be a consistent target of terrorism.

However, this post is not about New York City getting the shaft from Big Brother. This post is actually about government controlled healthcare (or anything government controlled for that matter).

How did the government determine which cities deserved funding that would allow them to increase their police force?

Well, the acting director of the Justice Department office administering the program, Dave Buchanan, said that his office used a “uniform system of evaluating applicants” which “allowed us to review applicants in a neutral and detached manner in order to best allocate funds”
Read that very carefully. Mr. Buchanan was offering us a very honest insight into how government bureaucracies make decisions; decisions that affect our daily lives.

The government is cold and calculating; objective and bottom-line oriented. We are a government “of the people” and people work beyond the scope of mathematics. Of course we are logical creatures, but we are also emotional, thoughtful and able to utilize all the traits that make us human while making decisions. This truly makes us a unique species. Government, however, is also its own entity; a entity that thrives on formulas, charts and spreadsheets.
Formulas can work out well on paper but can also miss the point.

Anyone reading this would have enough knowledge from life experiences to realize: hey, New York City would be a smart place to invest in increasing security. It is the financial capital of the world and it has already been the victim of two terrorist attacks, one that has completely changed the world we knew it. But, when New York City was plugged into the formula, they were rejected.

When you read Mr. Buchanan’s words “neutral” and “detached” you should start rethinking government controlled healthcare.

If you are ever in the need of a surgery that can prolong or even save your life, do you really want some mathematical formula determining whether or not you are worth the expense? Do you really want your healthcare determined in a vacuum void of human experience; one that is “neutral” and “detached” when determining how to “best allocate funds”?

I do not know about you, but I want my healthcare provider to be extremely subjective and attached. I want them having a shared investment in my healthy existence. I want them to place my existence above all us when deciding whether or not my insurer should be allocating funds.

My god people!