Not uninsured, but underisnured. I have one of those catastrophic policies that I pay a small amount for each month in order to pay a lot if, in the event a 16-ton weight drops on my head, I'll be covered. I'll lose a huge chunk of my savings, but that's the gamble one takes with such a policy.
And that stinks. It also used to stink that folks would fear going to the doctor becuse of a pre-existing condition. Because once their "secret" was found out, they could be bumped from their insurance. Under the new health care law, pre-existing conditions will eventually no longer exist as a means of exclusion. Thank God for that.
Actually a lot about health insurance stinks. I'm a firm believer in universal healthcare, medicare for all, for socialized emdicine. NO ONE should have to pay to be well, to be alive. Health care should be a right. Insurance is for cars and houses and apartments, not a human life.
There are so many people out there who, because of the supreme court's decision on the bill, won't be in the sitauton of the folks pcitured in the 5 of Pentacles. Think of that. Look at them. Out in the cold, no one to care for them. The child, like Dickens's Tiny Tim, on crutches, in a snow storm.
Many folks out there have no problem with the less fortunate being thrown out into the cold. "Get a job," they might say. Like that's the panacea, the cure-all for it all.
I could go on and on, but suffice it to say: I'm a firm supporter of the health care bill. I believe all people should get free healthcare eventually. Life should be treated with dignity. I believe someone named Jesus made a big deal about treating the less fortunate with compassion. Yeah, I seem to recall something about that ...
Thanks for letting me ramble.
Wow, awesome summary - I enjoyed your ranting very much!!
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