There they were. Right there in black and white.
Reading a recent WSJ Op-Ed piece, written by a highly regarded think tank ‘expert’ on health insurance - someone who should know better - I found no less than four material inaccuracies.
No surprise. The piece was written in support of just one presidential candidate’s health care reform proposal.
Have you ever looked closely at a life insurance sales proposal? Page after page of disclaimers and fine print articulating almost every conceivable scenario. Brokers are required to explain the pros and cons of what we are selling.
Now I don’t expect in the 60 seconds allotted to answer a debate question, or 30 seconds for a TV commercial, or even in a 650 world Op Ed, all sides of a sale pitch can be explained.
But let’s hold candidates for office to at least the same standards as insurance agents. On their websites, we should mandate full disclosure of all the facts.
Heck, what I sell costs thousands of dollars. What our politicians are selling, trillions.
And as Joe Friday used to say, “Just the facts, Ma’am!”
