I just don’t get it with many Americans and these so called “conservatives” when it comes to the health care problems many people are having in this country.
First off, many of the naysayers who are against the current health care reform probably have never been sick, nor have they ever been bankrupted due to a serious medical catastrophe. These same people have no idea how inadequate their health insurance really is and will be in for some shock when they go to use the plan, how quickly they can be denied services or cancelled outright.
I also love how these same people try to blame the person who is sick that is somehow their fault, whether it is the way the eat, maybe their problems stem from drug use, or just the fact that the person was to lazy to get an education and get out and get a good job. How ironic they use the same excuses when they in fact have no clue what the persons education level is, how hard they may have worked, how much they have put into the bank to retire on, etc, etc, etc.
As a 3 time cancer survivor, a well educated American, and someone who had (with a dual income) just less than $200,000 per year income with close to $100,000 in the bank with so called “excellent” health care benefits, how quickly I learned how broken our entire health care system really is. All that money we had in the bank was gone within a few short months, I was completely disabled, 401K drained, and denied any state benefits, even though I had paid into the system for many years.
After almost 2 years of needing medical services, not one company wanted to hire me because of the cost risk when it came to supplying me with health care benefits. My rates went from $180 per month to $2,500 per month and that did not cover any cancer or heart care whatsoever. Tell me, which corporation do you know could afford this extra monthly expense, and how many people do you personally know that could afford a health care premium of $30,000 per year?
The only thing I am really hearing from the republicans is that they want to cap all lawsuits which will take away the citizens right in a court of law, especially for those who truly have the right to sue. They want to keep an unregulated market protected while the citizens of this country are bent over time and time again, and complain that socialism is taking over this country. They are screaming death panels, and many other lies just to stop any type of health care reform that will actually help the American people.
In the richest country in the world, we can find money for war after war after war, we can find money for almost anything, but we cannot find a dime to help the American people with health care reform. Let me ask you how much money you think this country wasted fighting health care reform, or better yet, trying to impeach Clinton for a sexual act? Boy, sure do have the money for that, but nothing for the tax payers.
Since the republicans seem to be nothing more than war mongers, maybe we should just start picking up the sick people and let them be used for target practice! That right there will not only save this country billions of dollars, it will also allow these conservatives to have their much needed bloodshed, and maybe then, with mommy gone, the family can go ahead and purchase the family a Thanksgiving Day turkey, save their home, or maybe buy their kids a Christmas gift this year.