IT’S TIME FOR A UNIVERSAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN AMERICA!

I lost my health insurance the day I left my last job and haven’t received my cards in the mail for the insurance I now have with my new job.

I have one medication that I use (generic) that keeps my sinuses open so I can breathe. Last month it cost me $8.00. Today I called and asked the price. The price quoted (even though generic) was almost $89.00 without insurance.

I told them to disregard it until I get my new card for prescriptions.

This really gets under my skin!!! When will the drug companies stop doing people like this? Right now, I have a headache and cannot breathe out of my left nostril. It may take several days (even weeks) before I can get the medicine again… geesh!
There are literally people who are dying in the United States because they cannot afford their life-sustaining meds!

I think those in charge of jacking up these high prices for Americans should be held responsible for each person who dies because of the drug companies that are being so greedy!
And, the Americans who are sitting back and saying nothing because they have insurance should be ashamed of themselves and take five or ten minutes to write their senators!!!  ~Howdy

I stopped writing this article, then read some other articles on the subject. In one, an insurance man was saying universal health care would be bad. He went so far as to call people stupid. Because people aren’t stupid is why he was writing the article. He feels good taking our money and doesn’t want someone to cut his money supply off… hello??? Get real, Jethro! 

Someone else was saying we should shut up about it until we have a workable plan. We don’t have to have a plan. Even thinking that is absurd; let alone saying it! We elect officials to do this sort of thing. If they are not capable of doing what we pay them for, don’t elect ‘em. Geesh!

Wouldn’t it be nice to see someone living below the poverty level, or even someone like me who is just above it be able to go into the hospital and have an operation to save a life even if they aren’t wealthy. Imagine being in the room next to Oprah and getting the same treatment she is getting. Imagine not being afraid to face tomorrow even if we aren’t super wealthy.

Those of us who work, work hard. The hardest workers are many times the least paid. Does that make their worth less than the big executive who got lucky and made it to the top? No, of course not. We all deserve the same right to life, and to live when it comes down to a life sustaining operation of sorts, or just plain being able to afford our medications.

I am a values-voter. I won’t vote for someone who will make a mockery out of the office of the president of the United States like Bill Clinton did. Values are important to me. In 2008, my vote will be for the person with good character who will make universal health care a priority for all Americans. It may not be easy, but it can be done! Without it, the future of most baby boomers and all poor people in general are looking pretty gloomy at this point in time! ~Howdy (again)