A Different Health Care Paradigm

What if I told you:

• that you will no longer pay healthcare premiums. Nor will your employer.
• that your employer will add to your salary the amount that he now pays to provide you healthcare insurance coverage.

Opinions

I would love this to be the last time I write about “opinions,” but I am sure it will not be considering the American obsession with “I have a right to my opinion” and “my opinion is as good as anyone else’s opinion.”

The most famous quip ever about opinions belongs to NY Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927 - 2003).  It goes, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”  Opinions look like facts, like declarations of the truth (“This statement is true”); but unlike factual statements, opinions are never provably true or false.  Indeed, not all factual statements are true, some are statements that are false.  But opinions are statements that are never demonstrably true or false.  BELIEFS and POINTS OF VIEW, on the other hand, may consist of opinions and/or factual statements.