We have no health care. If something happens in the next week we have to pay for three months of COBRA because my husband was laid off with 1/3 of his cohorts in a bizarre turn of events.
Luckily, if things go well we will have health care the day after our last day to elect COBRA. This is how Americans are dealing with day-to-day life.
People who are for or mostly against the nation’s health care plan, which people who denigrate our President and Commander in Chief call “Obamacare” now sit before the Supreme Court.
One person today asked who “deserves” health care. When there is employment, our employers foot part of the bill as an incentive to work there. But everyone deserves decent health care.
The problem is that Congress and the President have their own health care for life. We don’t. They don’t understand how it is to be laid off and have no money to pay for COBRA for 18 months trying to get a job when they need to house and feed a family.
I believe the conservative interests in our country don’t care about working class families and how their lives are impacted by either layoffs or family farming not being able to make do against government subsidized agricultural giants.
Heck, my family runs a ranch in Texas and my mother-in-law works for the federal government and gets health insurance for her and her husband. It shouldn’t be that way.
Do I believe that every person living in the US of A should be forced to have health insurance or be penalized? No. That is a scam of the insurance industry who pretends to hate this law.
For hundreds of years, since Lloyds of London was established, insurance schemes were perpetrated on the public so insurers could make and invest their money and never give it back.
That continues at least in the USA today because insurers make sure they’re regulated state-by-state, and not federally like banks. But the SEC is lax on a lot of things, too. So insurance can run things by state and make more money if the laws are looser, if they serve more champagne and Oysters Rockefeller to seal the deal, with a check in hand.
Are there a few problems with this law? Yes, there are with all of them. But our founding fathers didn’t have a problem with saying that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness was our right. Newt amended that yesterday to assure that only “young” Americans had that right.
If people want to put aside millions for their own private insurance and “conceirge” medical care that’s fine. Just give the poor and middle class a chance. Dee
Cooking with Dee 