I talked with someone yesterday about their family member who has medical bills that are totalling $ 1million dollars and Doctors still don’t know what’s wrong with her. The woman just recently had a baby and has been to the Mayo Clinic and Doctors are baffled as to what is wrong.

Money is a huge factor in this healthcare bill because, at the same time, people are losing jobs all over the place so if they don’t have jobs they can’t buy health insurance even from the government. Our government already provides for emergency care for anyone who walks into a hospital ER…..even illegal aliens. After that we have sliding scale programs for the poor to see doctors at the local health departments. This bill isn’t for the poor people as they already get Medicaid, it’s for the Middle Class to be forced into buying something they don’t want. So, it’s also a power issue. Especially considering that if the insurance isn’t bought, folks will be fined or go to jail. That is totally unacceptable in our Nation of free people.

A couple of years ago I found out I had a severely blocked artery ( over 95%). Which was all very strange for an under 35, non smoking, light drinking fit woman with no family history of heath disease. I didn’t even have a doctor at the time as I’m never ill, so I hadn’t got around to registering with a new one after moving. The NHS were brilliant! Everything was taken care of within 3 months; that’s from the first visit to the hospital with chest pain, to me dithering about registering with a doctor, to pre-diagnosis tests and the operation.

My simplistic view is that there are some things so fundermental to a nations well being and productivity, that the government has a responsibilty to play a role. I don’t see why so many are against some form of government run health care. I completely understand that cost is an issue. But don’t you need to balance that with the cost of people not being insured, being too ill to work and contribute to society?

The whole idea of government-run health care is control and management. Those folks on welfare can attest to that if they would. I make use of “government-run” health care by the Veterans Administration. It is extremely over-burdened and under-staffed as well as having to fight for every dollar to keep afloat. Each year the Budget is always months behind.

It would be better if there was tort reform and the ability to buy competitive insurance across state lines than for their to be government run insurance mandates. While I understand that folks have a hard time getting insurance and paying for it, I also know that there are programs already in place for folks to use health clinics on a sliding scale as well as other programs. I took my sister to one because she had a brain trauma injury with no income. It was $12.00 a visit. Poor people will still be poor and on welfare with this system but the middle-class will be hurt and broken by it. Without a middle-class, jobs will continue to be lost and, in the end, there will just be the elite and the very poor. It’s a lousy system.