The Health Care Dream
I spent twenty years in the military. I liked feeling that I made a difference and loved
the travel. After a certain point the
idea of a pension after twenty years and free health care for my wife and I was
an added bonus.
The concept of not worrying about medical bills is very
alluring. Even though free health care is
a nice idea, it must be looked at pragmatically. We are experiencing the slowest recession
recovery in American history; the government is hemorrhaging money all over the
world; and we borrow sixty cents of every dollar we spend.
The current health care law was a pipe dream as written. We were promised that if you liked your
current health insurance you could keep it, you could keep your doctor, and prices
for most (including middle income earners) would go down. These have all proven to be lies.
We should not postpone the law; it should be scrapped. It cannot function as promised. It is pushing many doctors to retire early,
driving personal costs through the roof, and if all continues, as is, could
very well bankrupt the country.
If healthcare is a priority to us, let's find a way to truly
pay for it, and be honest with the citizens on its ramifications. We should first focus on getting America back
on its economic feet. We give billions
to foreign governments who hate us; save that money. We buy planes that the military doesn't want;
save that money. Our legislators spend
billions on projects that benefit only small areas and are done for purely
political reasons; save that money. We
fund "artists" who promote such things as the insane "Piss
Christ", or studies to determine why many lesbians are over weight. Why in the hell would we fund projects such
as these? SAVE THAT MONEY. Do you see a theme here?
The government should run like your household budget should
be run. Don't buy things you can't
afford, and budget for the true priorities.
We have to start showing some common sense as a country, or cents will
be all we have left.
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