Medical Gift Cards Bring Well Wishes

CBS News suffers from the same malady as ABCNews - a fistula between the rectum and the cranium. So does the Consumer Federation of America.

This story, which I covered weeks ago, has been resurrected by CBS as a good thing.

"Gift cards are big this holiday season. Americans are expected to spend over $26 billion on them, according to the National Retail Federation.

And now, there's a new arrival on that landscape, medical gift cards, which Jack Gillis of the Consumer Federation of America says enable someone to help give 'the gift of health.'"

It is apparent that the Consumer Federation of America has no concept of what health looks like.

It is apparent that CBS, as other media players, would rather see you sick than well.

This is a gift of repair, not health.

"One of the things the company (Highmark, Inc.) is capitalizing on is the fact healthcare costs have gone through the roof.'"

Health requires no "healthcare costs." Sickness does.

"Gillis noted that the cards could make a good gift from 40-to 50-year-olds faced with the task of helping their parents without having to be too intrusive and without a handout. 'This is a gift,' he says. 'It could enable someone to be proud.'"

"Proud" to be sick.

"He says it 'enables someone to give a gift to someone he or she loves and help them and be discreet. It's really the first of its kind.'"

Discreet as in when everybody else is opening their gifts, the sick person is - doing what?

"You can buy them in amounts from $25 to $5,000, whether or not the recipient has medical insurance."

This guy Gillis makes stupid look smart.

Clearly, the Consumer Federation of America is not to be trusted.

The real gift of "health" is fitness and supporting those about whom you care to become fit.