You can bring a horse to the water, but will it drink?

Here's a poignant look at the facts about Health Insurance.



We have often been made to believe that it is really expensive and beyond affordability, but is it really unaffordable? The fact is that it is often affordable but people exercise their choice to spend other stuff rather than on Health Insurance. Of course this is not a problem unique in the U.S. nor to the issue of health insurance alone.

Interestingly, politicians often take the easier way out and go for that popular rhetoric showing that they are fixing a problem (often a non-existent one as well). What we then get is big government systems and plans that cost so much and really does so little for the people. Then of course we get higher taxes for no apparent reason.

The key is really educating the people and informing them about it in the first place. This situation a problem even in Singapore. Hence, there was a drive for the civil services to push a hotline service and to start an citizen education program on the aid available to them.

Hopefully this will convince the people to make the right decision for themselves.