Don't Think of a Sick Child
George Bush doesn’t want you to think about sick children. He wants you thinking about the fine print of health insurance policies. He wants us to debate types of coverage, premiums and the size of networks, and whether we can afford catastrophic, comprehensive, limited, mini-med or scheduled health insurance. But George Bush doesn’t want you thinking about all the sick children left behind in America. And insurance companies don’t want you thinking about all the children they will bar from care, just so they can maximize profits.
Senior fellows at the Rockridge Institute, including cognitive linguistGeorge Lakoff, author of the best-selling “Don’t Think of an Elephant,” have joined together to examine the hidden truths in our raging national debate over health care. And to bring their new report, “The Logic of the Health Care Debate” to life, the Rockridge Institute has produced a video spot that dramatizes the way in which our current health care system is based on excluding nearly half of the American family — concluding with the provocative question: “Which one of your children would you leave unprotected?”
The video, written by Rockridge senior fellow Glenn W. Smith and produced by Margie Becker of Austin, TX, can be viewed online at
www.RockridgeInstitute.org/health