I have been reading a lot of the ins and outs of Obama's Health care Reform and I have to say that I am a bit confused. It seems like all he is saying is that it will be affordable. Affordable to who? I pay roughly one hundred dollars per month to keep myself insured and cared for. It's not a check I write out, it comes from my salary. Would I love to pocket that money and buy something else or save for a fun trip? Sure I would. Is it a reality? No it's not. I am taken care of by doctors and dentists because I found myself a job which includes a health care program. Now I am a 25 year old female and I realize I have only had that much time to learn about politics, life, and health care, but I beat a lot of people out with my experience of government-run health care because I did that for quite a few of my hospital visits as a little girl. Ask my family and my parents...it isn't fun. I realize that there may be glitches in health care, I have medications I PAY for and take every day and sometimes I get frustrated with my insurance company too. But I pay for the security of knowing that if I need to see a doctor or go to the ER, I can do that because I go to work and I work hard every day of my life for those benefits. Doesn't it seem like there is an easier solution to this ever so dramatic and difficult health care problem? Instead of being insurance-less because you're job-less...GO GET A JOB with a benefits structure. Insurance companies are more than willing to take you on as a customer and guess what? If you have a group program through your employer, OMG you get a discount, imagine that. I think the problem is that there are some Americans that want everything for free. Free of money and free of effort. I read something that inspired my blog title and it said that "Our Forefathers never promised happiness, only the pursuit of it." Being an American only entitles you to what you have worked for, the effort you put forth. I wish more people understood that. Put on your uniform whatever it may be, talk to your employer about benefits, and go to work people. We do it everyday.
