On health care reform- it's personal

So, the past few weeks it has been healthcare reform debate. Actually, not so much of a debate as a reckoning: healthcare expenses will rise to be an unsustainable debt upon our country. By reforming how expenses are compensated, making premiums affordable, having an emphasis on preventive care and covering the majority of people in this country, healthcare can be a guaranteed resource in this country.

Of course, that's if you subscribe to reason, logic, order and ethics in your everyday life. For many of our house represetatives and Senators, they are fully for sale, not to be compared to prostitutes for they only sell their bodies. These representatives have sold their soul to stay in power. And for many people in this country, even though health care reform would benefit them, they are under the pathetic sway of heir own racism, fearing government even as they disproportionally benefit from it:

Military benefits, including VA healthcare
GI Bill for college
Federal subsidies for roads and bridges
EPA protection for air, soil and water
FDA protection for food and drugs
Local government funding police, fire services and parks

You get the picture. These are people are fine if they get benefits from the government; yet hate the idea that other people be they brown/black/yellow/white/purple/Klingons who also contributes services and taxes to this country. Of course, they gladly call themselves Christian.

Reason, logic, order and ethics- that's what is missing from the sturm und drang that this debate has generated.

Well, Edie, you may ask: How do you stand?

For me, it's personal. I pay for my own health insurance- $250/month with a $4500 deductible and 85% coverage. No prescription benefit. No vision. No dental. Vision and dental I pay for myself, and because of a Costco membership, I am able to get decent glasses at a good price. But for my healthcare, I must pay for exams and tests myself. I use Zoomcare here in the Metro area, and it is cheaper to pay out of pocket than to submit paperwork to BCBS, even though it should count towards my deductible. So I am basically paying for all of my healthcare needs, and still paying premiums for medical emergency coverage, which would still leaves me close to $5000 in the hole for expenses if something was to happen to me and it costs more than $5000.

That's $3000/year I could be doing something else with.

If we were to have real reform, which would either include a public option and/or coops, that could be cut in half, if not by two thirds. That's real money, for better coverage and care.

We, as a country, need health care reform.