Healthcare as infrastructure (more thoughts rambling through my head...)
I posted this link on facebook: This past Friday, Senator Jon Kyl spoke against an amendment requiring that insurance companies provide maternity care for women. His reasoning, "I don't need maternity care in MY insurance." Senator Debbie Stabenow responded, "Yo...ur mom probably did." Way to go, Senator Stabenow!
My friend Maureen commented: Not to mention anyone he may have impregnated. Does he feel he is not part of the human race?
My friend Matthew Kube McDowell pointed out: People need to stop treating health insurance like a commodity and start treating it like infrastructure.
I thought that was a great point! I realize there are probably people who don't agree with this theory but in theory you pay taxes to support schools whether or not you have children because good schools are part of what helps make the place (community, town, city, country, planet...) you live in a good place to live. Good schools help create good citizens so everyone benefits whether directly because they have children or indirectly because the residents of their community will be better educated and more informed etc. The "It takes a village" philosophy.
Infrastructure. I don't want to pay the firefighters only when my house is burning down - I'd rather pay them to be ready and available to come immediately IF my house happens to burn down. And even if MY house doesn't burn down - I'd just as soon my neighbor's house didn't burn down, damages the property values don't ya know? ;-)
Seriously - I really do think we all need to take care of each other on our little blue planet.
My friend Maureen commented: Not to mention anyone he may have impregnated. Does he feel he is not part of the human race?
My friend Matthew Kube McDowell pointed out: People need to stop treating health insurance like a commodity and start treating it like infrastructure.
I thought that was a great point! I realize there are probably people who don't agree with this theory but in theory you pay taxes to support schools whether or not you have children because good schools are part of what helps make the place (community, town, city, country, planet...) you live in a good place to live. Good schools help create good citizens so everyone benefits whether directly because they have children or indirectly because the residents of their community will be better educated and more informed etc. The "It takes a village" philosophy.
Infrastructure. I don't want to pay the firefighters only when my house is burning down - I'd rather pay them to be ready and available to come immediately IF my house happens to burn down. And even if MY house doesn't burn down - I'd just as soon my neighbor's house didn't burn down, damages the property values don't ya know? ;-)
Seriously - I really do think we all need to take care of each other on our little blue planet.