Monday, November 23, 2009

whats the difference?

W.I.C., Financial aid, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, and universal health care what is really the difference? Are they not programs that are considered governmental assistance? Is it a right for all Americans to have unemployment? W.I.C? Medicare? of course not, but we still supply billions, actually probably trillions to these programs every year. These programs were designed to help move this country along in a leading role. Do they work? Well, that’s debatable. The fact remains though that they exist and we do not have plans to get rid of them. As a country we make decisions every day that are based on where and how we want to be perceived as a country... that’s why we stick our noses in to police the planet, this is why marijuana is still illegal, and why you have to be eighteen to partake in many activities. We are leaders and as leaders we have made a conscious effort to take care of the less fortunate in other countries meanwhile our own people have been silently suffering.

We spend all this money on taking care of the people that cant afford to take care of themselves (i.e. the elderly, mothers, students), yet we don't have a program in place if they get cancer, pregnant, a.i.ds, or even a sore throat? It sounds ridiculous, that by this point in our short history we have not fixed this apparent glitch. Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, and United Kingdom all have some sort of health coverage for the people, yet America doesn't? really?!?

As for the people that say that we will bankrupt private insurance companies, or don’t want a big government, I agree but don't you think that if we have some sort of governmental regulation on health care, there will be a crack down on hospitals charging $47 dollars for two aspirin, or the rising cost of co-pays or even the doctors treating patients differently based on their coverage?

I’m not saying that this particular health plan being pushed upon us is the greatest or the best we could do, but I do know one thing, we need to do something and we need to get its started now. Once we have a program in place we can get in there and tweak it in a way that will work.

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