Re: Affordable Health Care Plan
While this may be a political issue, sorry, I am not addressing it as such but rather as an issue about which our government doesn't have to DO for us but should certainly be looking out for our health and welfare. Sadly it is looking out for the industries that ostensibly should be serving us but in economic ways are self-serving.
I was a Hospice volunteer for many years, and the stories I saw of people being taken advantage of by the insurance industry, which had been given carte blanche by the government to operate as it does, at a time when these people were least able to deal with it (facing death, or facing the death of a loved one) were--and still are--and worse now than then--utterly unconscionable!
I had employer prescription drug coverage at the time Part D was created, and even though my coverage was excellent, I saw what Plan D really was (again carte blanche, this time for both industries--insurance and pharmaceutical) and immediately started railing against it. Little did I know that I would 'become one,' when the employer plan opted out, again with no restrictions.
To quote Boomer (I have no idea how to do this other than to copy and paste...) and to which all I can say is ditto:
First of all, we have decent coverage for now. But it would never occur to me to embrace the what I call the "I got mine. Too bad ya don't got yours." philosophy.
We all have to live with ourselves. Some "do" unconscionable better than others--and here we are, back to 'deep excrement'....
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