Update
I've not posted much lately, mostly because I've been busy with work and school... but mostly trying to keep up with school. Its going to be a long year until I finish.
Anyway, all this talk about "affordable health care" has got me thinking and there is just one question I've not found a real answer too as our elected officials attempt to devise a health care system that is suppose to cover every American and not make us poor in the process.
What /is/ affordable health care?
I don't see any definition of that anywhere. What's affordable to my neighbor may not be affordable to me. What happens if the company I work for, who has already changed my health care so I'm paying for 50% of it now which is a rather large chuck of change, decides to drop me completely once a national health care shows up, and on top of that it's going to cost me more than what it would if my employer still offered a plan but wanted me to pay 100% of it? Worse yet, what about all those of you out there with children. I don't have any and its times like these I'm glad I don't. How the hell would I be able to afford them?!
From all I've read and heard, it sounds like we may be on the track of health care for all Americans but nothing which is going to be affordable for everyone and definitely still far below the quality of health care available it just about every other industrialized country in the world.
Anyway, all this talk about "affordable health care" has got me thinking and there is just one question I've not found a real answer too as our elected officials attempt to devise a health care system that is suppose to cover every American and not make us poor in the process.
What /is/ affordable health care?
I don't see any definition of that anywhere. What's affordable to my neighbor may not be affordable to me. What happens if the company I work for, who has already changed my health care so I'm paying for 50% of it now which is a rather large chuck of change, decides to drop me completely once a national health care shows up, and on top of that it's going to cost me more than what it would if my employer still offered a plan but wanted me to pay 100% of it? Worse yet, what about all those of you out there with children. I don't have any and its times like these I'm glad I don't. How the hell would I be able to afford them?!
From all I've read and heard, it sounds like we may be on the track of health care for all Americans but nothing which is going to be affordable for everyone and definitely still far below the quality of health care available it just about every other industrialized country in the world.