My mother is the owner of a small private Montessori school. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this teaching philosophy, it is a school in which students learn at their own individual pace rather than the pace of the group as a whole. Many of her students were withdrawn from public schools due to an inability to learn at the speed of the group and many of whom ended up causing disruptions in the class room as a result. Then there are students like my younger brother who is the rare type of student who learns at a much greater pace than those his age, to the point that his academic peers are only found at a college level.
Of my entire family only my little brother and myself have health insurance. I have health insurance through my place of work and Adam has government health benefits due to his age. My mother has no health insurance. She works sixty-plus hours a week and makes less money than I do, a part-time dairy sales associate at Wal-Mart, I’m not even the lowest rank of manager. My parents own and work at the school because of the fulfillment they get from the job. My mother has only handful of employees because she can only afford to hire the state required number of workers given the amount of children enrolled (for a certain number of students require additional employees). She cannot even afford to pay them more than minimum wage and they have no health care benefits. The only benefit she can offer her help is if they have children, they either get free tuition or greatly discounted rates.
As I stated previously, I have health insurance through Wal-Mart, which charges me thirty-six dollars a month (a thirty dollar increase from the insurance option that I had last year for the exact same care I might add) for the most basic of health insurances, namely a high deductible accident insurance and a limited discount on medical visits and pharmacy materials, and in comparison to a great many insured individuals I am considered to have GOOD insurance. While I have been fortunate enough to have a surprisingly healthy medical constitution, I have been to the doctor enough times to see how inflated the cost of each visit is. A visit in which a doctor performs no tests, uses only the most basic of disposables for examination purposes to prevent contamination can cost a person over $100.
I have observed and even studied countries that do have a government option, and I have discovered in my research that the benefits outweigh the costs.
So yes, based upon the information I have gathered, government healthcare is something that is long overdue in a country that is as prosperous as ours.
You want to know what I do know about the bill?
First of all, it was not forced down your throat on the basis that The Patriot Act, The War in Afghanistan, and The War in Iraq were not forced down this country’s throat when it was under the watchful eye of a different
Second, there is no such thing as “Death Panels” in the bill that will determine whether or not your grand parents will be allowed to continue living if something happens to them. In fact, just to prove this point I place my own surviving grandparent’s lives on the line. Grandpa Bob and Grandma Cookie front and center! If there is a death panel I will personally feed the two of them into a cremation furnace at this very moment. Wait, what’s this? They’re alive, and not covered in fire?
Finally, the government health care bill creates the option of public health care. Let me repeat that because I personally think it’s pretty important, it creates the OPTION of public healthcare. That means it does not require everyone to go to a government sanctioned health center so a government assigned medical czar can perform medical experiments upon you for the motherland. What it means is it gives you the OPTION of public healthcare. You have a choice to have whatever private insurance you want and if you are uninsured, then comrade Obama will step in and take the burden of medical costs off your back.
We are all allowed to have our own opinions. I mean why else would we be able to have two competing groups on Facebook one titled “One Million Against Government Healthcare” and the other “One Million for Government Healthcare?” We are allowed to share our thoughts, our information to anyone who will listen without consequence…
Save one.
Information, be it a statement, a choice to join a group, or even the “liking” of someone’s status message is there for everyone to see or hear, and when they do they will judge you for it and that will alter their opinion of you in some way, shape, or form; whether it is intentional or not. What you do is what creates the perceptions others have for you.
Even if you are a million strong for or against an action, if 99 percent of you are misinformed, than you are nothing more than a million misinformed buffoons. Think very carefully before you act, especially when it’s about something you may know nothing about.
Cheers,
Eric Summers
