Wednesday, November 25, 2009
A few things that bug me about the Health Care Debate
I'm bothered by the fact that the people debating and voting on whether or not our country reforms health care absolutely have little or no personal stake in it. U.S. representatives and senators have some of the best health care coverage out there, so it seems easy for them to blow it off for one reason or another. Similarly, I'm also annoyed by people with health care who rain down their worries upon me about the 'possible' decline in their health care. I understand why they are worried. I haven't seen any proof that their worries will come to fruition yet... but frankly I don't care if they do. The fact of the matter is that I've been in the situation where I lost my health care and had to buy private insurance. It is not feasible to do so. If you lost your job, I highly doubt that most people have a hundred some dollars every month for health insurance (and that was the price for only me... the non smoking, marathon running, 22 year old...) Moreover, I have crappy health insurance now with Americorp. All I'm saying is that the college educated guy who volunteers to serve his country for a year by helping school children shouldn't have to declare bankruptcy because he breaks his leg or gets some other obscenely expensive to treat disease. That is not the kind of country I want to live in because that sucks.
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