I sort of feel the need to clarify my post on Obama care.
Keep in mind; this is only my personal opinion.
I am not anti-medical card. I am anti medical card abuse.
There are people who genuinely need and deserve financial
aid and Medicaid.
People with true physical and/or mental disabilities.
For these people, there should be no limits. All medical
doors should be wide open and all services should be available. Unfortunately, that is not always the
case. I have friends that fight the
Obama care red tape to get even minimal medical services.
Friends that have fought the system to get nursing care for
family members that very obviously need them. Yet they are forced to provide
documentation and proof that they are truly unable to care for themselves or
work for a company that offers insurance plans that they can purchase..
People that have maintained steady employment and find
themselves in medical crisis, should NOT have to fight the system. And they
should not have to fight the insurance company they have been paying premiums
to, for specialized medicine, medications, nursing hours etc…
I would also interject that with a personal history of
depression and long term treatment of attention deficit, these things do not
qualify. There was a point in my life
when the idea of slamming my car into a wall sounded like a more peaceful option
than simply getting out of bed. Facing each day was torturous. But every day, I
put on my big girl panties, and drug my ass to work, grocery shopped, put gas
in my car, kept the house clean enough to avoid infections and parent my
children. Depressed parenting is better
than no parenting. And looking at my son and his huge heart full of compassion,
I think I did a pretty good job (we’re still working on the female 15 year
old).
My point.. Don’t tell
me you’re on a medical card, living in subsidized housing or collecting a
social security benefit because you’re too depressed to work. Suck it up
Buttercup. We all have hardships. Life is tough.. If we all took the easy way out, the
government would run out of housing.
My beef is mainly with the children’s clause of this
plan.. If Obama care is going to award
one child the ability to receive services from the best doctors, and access to
the most up to date technology, free of charge, then all children should be
awarded the same privilege. According to Obama care, I make enough money
to pay for my children to have insurance.
But however it may appear on paper, I do not make enough money to seek
out special treatment or tests that I think my child might need. For anything that my doctor does not
recommend, or anything my insurance carrier (in another state) deems
unnecessary, I must pay out of pocket.
Obama care for children should be across the board. No matter what the family income is. No
matter what tax bracket a family is in.
Whether or not the parent/parents are employed by a company that offers
health insurance. Every child should
have the magic card that allows them access to only the best doctors.
That’s what I would call socialized medicine.