I’ve got a confession to make: I have been walking a tight rope without a safety net — self-employed for about eight months with no health insurance.
The good news is, I have gotten by just fine. The bad news is, I’ve started a job that offers health insurance, but it’s really very poor insurance for costing so much money.
Whatever happened to the ideas of health insurance reform? Have you noticed the way none of the presidential candidates have continued talking about health care? Universal health care? Health care no matter what state you live in? I mean why can’t we get a national plan going so you’ve got MO health care, MI health insurance, NC health insurance, SC health insurance — something like just plain good old U.S.A. health insurance??
Canada did it. Great Britain does it. France, Sweden, and most other industrialized nations have done it. So why in the world can’t America find a way to do it — guaranteed, useful health insurance for everyone in the country?
I don’t know much about the problems and pitfalls of national health insurance, especially some form of free or nearly free universal health insurance. But I’m sure it really CAN be done. And if Canada and France can do it, shouldn’t the U.S. be able to do it and do it BETTER? (Kidding. Just kidding, all you French and Canadian readers out there.)
Come on, politicians, insurance companies, HMOs, and all you rich folks out there in the U.S. Get your acts together and help us all out, whatta you say??
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