Wednesday, February 24, 2010

I Could Solve The Healthcare Problem

So what's up with this Health-care Summit going on tomorrow in D.C? It's a shame that we have to have a summit on it because greedy selfish self-serving politicians won't get their heads out of their asses and actually do what's best for their constituents.
I do believe it's a great idea to have it televised so the American people can see all of the stupid bastards who are against reforming our health care system that greatly needs to be changed.
I am diabetic and when I graduated from college, Blue Cross Blue Shield took me off of my mom's health insurance. For almost two years I have not had health insurance. When I attempted to apply for my own individual health insurance with Blue Cross, they denied me because of my preexisting condition. I find it interesting they would deny me considering they had covered it for four prior years. When I looked for health insurance that would cover my Diabetes and had reasonably good coverage, it cost upwards of 350 dollars a month. And I definitely couldn't afford that. When I did find a full time job with benefits, I had to wait a year for my Diabetes to be covered. So I have been screwed. My great gift when I graduated from college was to have my health insurance taken away.
The worst part is that there are many more stories out there like mine. Stories of people getting cancer and their health insurance company finding some small discrepancy in their files and finding a reason not to cover it. People dying because health insurance companies deny their treatment. Is this one of the benefits of capitalism? Money coming before people's health and livelihood.
I believe the best thing would be universal health-care but I know that's not going to happen. I believed the public option idea was great but congress crushed that mostly due to ignorant people calling the public option socialist and branding it as the government taking over health-care. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been mandatory; I believe that's why they called it a public OPTION. (You know, republicans are such hypocrites sometimes. They talk about the need for the government to be less involved, but it's only when less-involvement would serve their interest. Like in this case, opposing government involvement in health care means they can continue to get campaign contributions from big drug companies and health care providers. You know, Democrats are guilty of that too but at least they aren't hypocritical jerks about it.)
Preexisting condition clauses need to be eliminated. I didn't fucking give myself type 1 Diabetes; it happened to me and I shouldn't be punished for it. It's always the people who need things who get fucked over in the end.
Premiums need to be regulated. Today I heard that Anthem Blue Cross in California wants to raise their premiums by 39%. They say it's due to rising health care costs. Yet the CEO makes 1.3 million dollars a year, receives about 73,000 dollars in bonuses annually, and has 8.5 million dollars in stock options. Maybe she should take a pay cut. That would lower costs!
I honestly believe health care should be non-profit. People are entitled to health care; they shouldn't have to go broke to get health insurance. They shouldn't have to choose between food and necessary medications. Over one million people declared bankruptcy in 2008 and 60% of those were due to medical bills. That means about 600,000 people had to declare bankruptcy because they couldn't afford necessary medical procedures. They had to declare bankruptcy because they decided to save their lives. If that was 2008, I can't imagine how many there were in 2009.
I am so tired of politics; it's not about people anymore. It's about their own personal agendas. Politicians are constantly working to get re-elected; not to do what's right for people.
Now, if they don't pass this health care legislation, I am going to go to D.C and personally slap every member of Congress. All 400+ of them. Who will join me?

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