Health Care in America

Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about health care in this country and the reform it needs. It is something I had never really thought about until the last year or so. Mainly because I was always covered through my mom and then while on active duty through Uncle Sam.

Now that I have spent the last year with out health insurance and working in an emergency room I really understand the need for universal health care. Every day people get sick or injured and every day a good percentage of these people have no sort of health care coverage. They are left scurrying around after trying to get emergency medicaid, if not that then just the money to pay the hefty bill. Think about this to just set foot in there is some where around $100, if you take an ambulance in they charge you by the mile, a cat scan is about $2000, you come in med flight expect to pay around $10,000. Every day people without health care face these problems. Its scary and sick. That in a supposed perfect, well perfect is an overstatement, but the place people all over the world want to live cant even provide universal health care.

Health insurance companies also decide when you are good enough to go home. They decide your stay has been too long and cut off your insurance, more or less pushing you out of the hospital because they dont see it sufficient or cost effective for you to stay. Unless your case worker or doctor pushes for you to stay. Sick I tell you

Recently the one thing that has really made my blood boil was the proposed $35billiom reform that passed in the senate about a week ago to generate universal health care for all children under 18yrs old in the country. I thought and still think its a fantastic idea, why should a child be denied vaccinations, yearly check ups and doctors visits while growing up. Well GW seems to think its not necessary. Just as fast as this bill was passed he vetoed it. As soon as I had heard this I was screaming in my head, cursing out him and his cronies who back this vetoing. He (the president) had proposed a $5billion spending bill for universal health care for children in America, the senate drafted the $35billion plan which he thought was too much. There is no way in hell there is every too much to spend on a childs health.

In my mind I had thought about sending an email or writing a letter and sending it to DC voicing my out rage to this veto, but I knew it would make no difference. I guess I am a type of defeatist. The reason I was so fired up about this is because it cut into his war spending budget for Iraq and Afghanistan. So lets see "help sick children in our country or keep sending people to die, have their lives put on hold and altered for ever, yep going with the war" I guess I will just never understand this. Maybe my priorities are are a touch different, to me its just so sad when I am at work and I see these kids, innocent kids who are hurt and their parents who can already just barely afford to put food on the table now have to find some way to pay for them to see a doctor.

I would love for this to change for the health care to be offered. But its not only that. For me to be covered since I am a part time employee around school, it costs me $200 a month for insurance while full time employees pay $18 a month. Its like I am being punished. Its insane and reform needs to happen.

This is a topic I could go on about forever it to me is sickening and needs to change.