Monday, April 11, 2011

Sunny Days Healthcare and Welfare

Sitting here on a beautiful day inside? Why? Laziness I guess. Its such a beautiful day outside yet I wanna go  out and do something but what? My mind has a hard time wrapping itself around a plan that a lot of times i end up just staying inside on the computer or watching movies. Why is that? is it a weird quirk I have? Or am I just strange? lol...

The past few days Ive been pondering healthcare. I know this is a tough issue that a lot of people don't wanna talk about or no one agrees on but all I know is that our healthcare system is messed up. I witnessed a coworker get sent home the other day cause he was super sick. Turns out hes Diabetic and has no health insurance. How horrible is that? People need health insurance and need medicines or else there gonna be sick all the time. I mean look at me for instance I'm in debt about $60,000 just from medical bills alone. And when I was hospitalized for tonsillitis it could have been avoided had I had insurance and just gone in for a check up. Instead they sent me a $75,000 hospital bill and when I said I had no insurance they discounted it down to $45,000 oh how generous of them! Where am I suppose to get that kind of money? They must be crazy! All I know is we need change some kind not sure what but we need some sort of change!

I think its wrong how some of these government run programs are well run now a days. When I was homeless and only working a few hours a week I went to the welfare  office and they laughed in my face said making $200 a month is too much for them. Is that ridiculous or what? They said that someone who makes $200 can get help and can provide for themselves. You cant get anything with that. What I find is that the system is flawed it allows for people to only to become stuck on the system where their is no way to help improve them to get off. They have no help towards bettering themselves they wont get a job cause they'll lose their welfare benefits. Why aren't we better regulating these systems and instead of those who need help getting help they have so many people abusing the system that instead the people who need it cant get help and fall into despair. I'm not saying I'm the woman to fix the healthcare and government run programs but their needs to be some sort of reform is all. It wont be easy but it needs to be done.

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