Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category

Today was the craziest of days. I learned first hand about the world around me in a way that I don’t normally get to. It all started when I had to go pick up some prescriptions for our kids. All three of them are sick and we took them to the doctor, and I ended up spending a fortune at the pharmacy.

I knew things were going to be hectic today when I started backing out of the garage before the liftmaster garage door opener had a chance to get the door open. It moves pretty quick so my mind must have been racing pretty hard to forget to wait for the door to open.

On the way to the pharmacy I usually take the back roads because it ends up being quicker than trying to jet down the interstate. Today, that was not the case. It seems one of the communities near here has installed an osco residential gate and I can no longer cut through their well manicured subdivision. No worries though, I found another way that only added a few seconds to my trip.

When I finally arrived at the pharmacy, I was once again rushing because I ran smack dab into the automatic door. I haven’t bumped into something that hard since my college days when I worked in the college library and used to start lowering the faac gate at the loading dock and hit my head one time as I ducked under the darned thing.

It’s good I smacked myself on the head though, because it made the pain of the pharmacy bill not seem so bad.

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If people don’t pay for their own health insurance, Hillary Clinton thinks garnishing their wages to pay for it anyway is a good idea.

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans.

The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack Obama for pushing a health plan that would not require universal coverage. Clinton has not always specified the enforcement measures she would embrace, but when pressed on ABC’s “This Week,” she said: “I think there are a number of mechanisms” that are possible, including “going after people’s wages, automatic enrollment.”

Clinton said such measures would apply only to workers who can afford health coverage but refuse to buy it, which puts undue pressure on hospitals and emergency rooms. With her proposals for subsidies, she said, “it will be affordable for everyone.”

I’m all for revamping the health care industry, it does need to be fixed, but government mandated health care is not the answer. If it was we would hear about thousands of people leaving the United States for health care in other countries, but we don’t. In fact, we always hear about people coming here to have procedures done. We have the best health care in the world, we just need to make it more affordable to those who desperately need it.

Also, when my son had his surgery, we had insurance, sucky insurance, and I made payments for a year and a half to pay it all off. There was no “undue pressure on the hospital”. They still got their money and in many cases they do. I don’t think we would see much difference whether it was my own sucky company provided insurance or government controlled crap coming down the same tube.