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Yes, We Need Universal Health Care Insurance

Posted in Meandering by Rachel on the July 22nd, 2009

Quit listening to the scare tactics of big business and insurance companies. We need a strong nation full of healthy and productive people if we are going to pull out of this economic disaster. So, we all need to be able to have access to good solid health care, as well as wellness and prevention programs, so we can keep healthy.

When I did NOT have access to such health care I also lost access to a very specific medication I needed to keep healthy. When I no longer was able to get that medication, I was no longer able to work well. I could barely get up in the morning. I could barely make it across the room without that medication. However, while I couldn’t afford to pay for my insurance, having a full time job meant I made too much money to access help from a free clinic. Once I lost my job, I was poor enough to be able to access the services of the free clinic. They were able to get me back on that medication and I am now a productive member of society.

I still don’t make enough to pay for my own health care insurance and I have been turned down when I tried to apply because of my weight. And some of my weight gain is a side effect of not having access to that medication. But, I am not on unemployment or general relief or disability and I am able to at least pay my rent, bills and taxes and be a productive member of society. But, I wouldn’t be able to do any of that if it wasn’t for that free clinic. Because otherwise, I would not have access to adequate health care.
And I am only one of millions of people in a similar boat. We cannot afford health care or are turned down because of pre-existing conditions and there is no way of seeing how we ever will get insurance in the future.  And we’re trying. We are. But we all need access to adequate health care. If you want productive employees who are healthy and make it to work and do their jobs, then you need to make sure they STAY healthy and when they get sick or hurt that they can get healthy again. And that doesn’t happen unless those employees get health insurance or have some access to health care. And employers aren’t paying insurance these days and the cost of health insurance is more than many people can afford. So, we need an affordable universal health care plan if we’re going to have a healthy populace who can work themselves out of this economic crisis.
I will hammer and hammer and hammer on this until people get it. It’s the single most important issue of our time.
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