Immediate gratification? Has no one learned anything????
by PRRussell on Nov.18, 2009, under ♥ My Personal Blog
Okay, I am feeling a bit frustrated beyond belief today so I am going to lay it all out. Here’s my rant:
I agree, the Republican plan was not the best. I personally don’t think nationalized (socialized) medicine is the way to go though. It will cost a fortune we do not have. What happened to personal responsibility? I shouldn’t have to pay for someone elses healthcare and by the same token you should not have to pay for mine. I don’t say that lightly either. I have been without insurance, I’ve lost jobs and had to go on COBRA to stay covered, I have been denied for pre-existing conditions, I almost went blind b/c I needed retinal surgery and I missed my pre-existing 90 day exemption period by one day! I have gone without doing a single blood sugar test for more then a year b/c it was all I could do to buy the insulin I needed. I have had insurance but paid so much for the monthly premium I couldn’t afford to see the doctor or get any tests done anyway b/c I couldn’t afford the copays and that plan didn’t even cover test strips! I have seen the ugliest of the ugly. So I don’t say these things lightly. I should be getting disability right now but I refuse. I don’t like the cards God dealt me but He dealt them to me all the same and I can take care of myself. I don’t want the govt or my neighbors paying my way. My annual healthcare costs are just north of $300,000 each year!!!!!! I am only ONE person!!! What about all the other chronically ill people? There are over 20 million Type 2 diabetics, about 3 million Type 1’s like me, then there’s MS, MD, cancer in it’s multitudes of forms and on and on…. we can’t afford it! Why should you have to pay my $300,000 a year healthcare costs when right now I am doing fine on my own? Granted, if reform is not done and costs continue to go up more and more ppl who are doing fine this year won’t be in the future and the number of uninsured will keep rising. That’s why we need reform to control costs……. socializing medicine and making you pay for my $300,000 a year is not the answer though and that’s not lowering cost! That’s everybody throwing their money into one big pot and us trusting the govt to take care of that money. Yeah right, they’ll watch over it and take real good care of it for us *rolling eyes*. Then the govt can tell me they only have so much money in the pot so I can’t have the kidney transplant I will need in (let’s just say) 20 years because….. “you’re rather old after all, Mrs. Russell, and you’ve had diabetes for 49 years.” DAMMIT!!!!! It was my money that went into the dam pot in the first place!!!!! If you’d just let me keep it and let me take care of myself I could get the dam kidney transplant!!!! Now I’ll just have to lay here quietly and die. That’s what will happen and we all know it. Right now I am doing fine on my own!!! Insurance is a priority in my life. I NEED it. I cannot live without it, literally. So I make life choices and life sacrifices to make sure I have the insurance I need. Right now, if I needed a kidney transplant and I went to a facility approved by my health insurance company I will pay NOTHING!!!!!! They would pick it up 100%!!! I did not come by this insurance by accident. I have made choices in my life specifically to line me up to have this!!! I take responsibility for me. I could have lived above my means but I didn’t so I have very little debt right now. I could have gone out and gotten a house I couldn’t really afford a few years ago but I KNEW I couldn’t afford it so I didn’t and I am still in an apartment today. So many ppl made wrong choices in their lives… bought houses they could not afford… never gave insurance a second thought until they needed it and didn’t have it. I am SO TIRED of paying a price for those ppl!!!!!!! I play by the rules of personal responsibility. Healthcare must be reformed to get costs down so ppl can afford it but just throwing everyone’s money into a big pot that they never see and handing the money back out to them that they never see is not the answer. Socialized healthcare is NOT FREE!!!!!!!! Nearly every country that has socialized medicine is currently changing things so they can get out from under the financial burden because it is destroying their countries. WHY WOULD WE DO THAT TO OURSELVES??????? For the immedicate gratification of having every single person covered even though we know a few decades down the road it will bring this country to it’s knees and our grandchildren will pay the nasty price for our immediate gratification????? It’s a HUGE problem that will take a while to fix. People will suffer in the meantime but haven’t we learned anything about immediate gratification in this society yet???? For cryin’ out loud already! As for Obama, this is all his fault. He had a choice. He could have written the bill himself and moved it into the legislative branch to get tweaked and voted on. George W. Bush did it with the Social Security reform bill and Bill Clinton did it with the Healthcare Reform bill and there have been other examples. The WH could have written this bill for the most part but he chose to hand it over to Pelosi and Reid to do. If he cared so damn much about it he should have done it himself. The truth is the American people DO NOT WANT socialized medicine. That is why it has never been passed for the past 60 years. The Dem’s need to give it up. They need to put their own selfish, power-grabbing, wanting-us-to-be-dependant-on-them desires aside and stand up and claim this issue as their own if they want it so bad. Poking it with a stick and stirring up a hornets nest every 15 years or so is not the way to do it. They need to take it slow… small steps. I think nearly all Americans no matter their political viewpoints want reform for healthcare. I am a huge State person myself but I’m from the South so it’s in my DNA. I think the States should be left to figure it out on their own for their own state. The Federal govt needs to keep their damn nose out of it. Alot of states have already developed programs to address the situation. They should be encouraged and offered some help along the way. Of course, Mass. did a terrible job with theirs… they went the socialized route and now the cost is too high… higher than the national cost…. and it’s getting worse by the day and they still don’t have everyone covered. So anyway, that’s my 2 cents. Probably enough to make some ppl really mad and others would back me. I’m just one person and that’s how I feel about it.
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