Obama spoke tonight for his national health care plan. I did not even turn it on, and have not listened to the 10 million reviews of it which I’m sure have taken place by now. I wanted a peaceful evening.
My views on a nationalized health care plan are simple. Over 40 million Americans cannot afford, and do not have, health insurance. Now, that may not be that big of a deal if we were Canadians. Or Brits, or French. We could go to the emergency room at our local hospital there, and get patched up for free. We wouldn’t get funny looks or rolled eyes when we said we didn’t have an insurance card to show them before being admitted. We wouldn’t get patched up, sent home and then had the bill sent to a collection agency as soon as we couldn’t pay the few thousand dollars our visit cost. But this is America. And that is exactly what happens in America. People going to the emergency room in America did not go to their doctor for regular check ups for exactly the same reason. No health insurance. So they go to the emergency room when the condition becomes critical and they or their loved one is in pain.
Do I trust the President to put together a health care package for me? HECK YEAH. It can’t be any worse than doctors being able to turn patients away when they need prenatal care, which happened to me when we were poor. People don’t believe these things. But they happen every day. Doctors in America get paid more money for their work than any doctors in the world. They do not as a general rule practice preventive care, let alone herbal or natural healing. I TRUST THE PRESIDENT TO GIVE ME A HEALTH CARE PACKAGE because so many Americans have NONE if we do not take this step!! What is so hard about that? I just don’t get all the uproar.
The uproar must be from people who stand to make LESS money if all this goes through. The medical profession and the drug companies. That’s all I can figure. So I am for it.
Try being poor in America for awhile. It’s no picnic. Most of Europe and every other Western-style nation has a nationalized health care plan, paid maternity leave for fathers and mothers, paid vacation time for part-timers as well as full-time workers, and subsidized daycare. Only the USA does not have those things. Our independent spirit sometimes makes no sense. Society has to take better care of its struggling multitudes. We do not excel at this task. Other nations do it better, and we stand to learn something from them in this case.
Doctor Grandma 
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