Topic: Medical care issues
One of my main concerns in life is wondering about health care.
Will it be available at all in the future?
What quality of care will it be?
Can I afford any of the insurance plans available?
Can I even afford the minimum co-pays of most plans.
How do you feel about national health care?
If you are like a cousin of mine who has a very nice high-paying job
in technology, you would probably say," Hell, let them get a better
job so they will have insurance."
Ask the waitress at your favorite restaurant what she does when she
needs medical care for herself, or a family member. She doesn't make
enough to buy insurance, and the pay is so low, that in most cases
she would let the problem go until it became very serious.
Early in my life, I was not covered by any medical insurance plan. My
dad was a poor logger.Insurance was a luxury he couldn't afford.
Then, I was severely injured when I was 10 years old. A charity
called the, Crippled Children's Fund, paid my medical expenses.
Early in my working career, I had jobs that provided good medical
insurance plans.Then the oil crisis in the late 70's caused the plant
I worked in to close.
There I was with a wife,and two samll children when trouble struck
again. Both children broke their arms the same day when they fell out
of the tree in our back yard.
Several more plant layoffs occurred,and family a illnness seemed to
happen almost immediately after the job loss. We learned very quickly
that the system in America did not favor un-employed people, or
people in low-paying jobs.
After being mentally abused many times through the years, I came to
realize that American's were being denied a right that was available
to almost all citizens of the other industrialized nations of the
world,a national health care plan that would protect a person's life
in case of illness, or accidents.
Wouldn't it be nice if all of us had the exact same medical plan that
the Congress gives to it's Members-of-the-Club.
You and I know that will never happen,but a national health care plan
of mere survival benifits should be available to every American.
The business community, especially those protected by the FDA, the
AMA, and the insurance and drug companies are vehemently opposed, and
I can't blame them.If we have national health care, then their
profits would be average, instead of astronomical,and obscene.
I have been at both ends of the medical care situation. My wife and I
have received very good care when we had excellent insurance at our
places of employment,but when circumstances changed, we did not get
the same level of care.
Oh sure! An ER will see you if you don't have money or insurance,but
do you get the same level of attention that you would if you were
insured? I know you don't in my area of the country.
The latest figures I have seen say there are over 42 million
American's with no health care insurance.
If Canada and most nations of Europe can have health care for their
citizens, why can't America?
Does an American citizen have any value to the state, or society in
general?
Posted by wings4help
at 12:08 PM EST
