Health Care

There has been a lot of talk and debates over the new health care plan. I haven't quite decided where I stand on this issue, but things need to change. It has disturbed me though about these people inciting others by spreading rumors and making up scenarios. And, there are so many followers who will listen to them. If I was to say that the health plan had a provision in it for people to get guns for free, and the guns could only be used to kill yourself with, I am afraid that there would be people hearing that who would repeat it, and then there would be someone at a town hall meeting who would be screaming at a politician about the government proposing suicide for its citizens. That is how stupid these things have become. If you need to make a decision about a parent's continuing suffering with no hope of them getting better, like my brother and I had to make about Daddy, we didn't go to a death panel. We consulted a doctor. Did the doctor sit on a death panel? No, he was just doing his job. But, if someone uses the words "death panel", it conjures up a whole host of bad things, and others just flip out. I fear that insurance companies are just laughing about how stupid we have become. When I was needing oral surgery several years ago, I called my insurance company for a list of oral surgeons that my plan covered. I was in Columbia. There was one guy in Orangeburg, some 50 miles away. And, then the next closest was Atlanta, some 250 miles away. Columbia is a city with a lot of oral surgeons, but my policy didn't cover anyone in Columbia, so I couldn't afford the surgery. Consequently, I didn't have it. So, my feeling about health care reform is that all doctors need to be covered for everything for everybody. And, stop talking about socialism and nazis. Oh, and stop talking about the House plan that they aren't going to vote on anyway. That's another thing about Washington. They have a lot of plans. Usually, the plan that becomes law is one that is a compromise from lots of different plans. A committee takes ideas from several sources and puts them together into one plan. So, until that happens, just sit back and wait for it. Then, you can get in a Senator's face and yell at him. Hey, did you hear that the new health care plan has a provision in it for monkeys to parachute from the sky and are going to invade your personal space and give you hay fever? It's true, because I just made it up.