Monday, July 27, 2009

Is "improving" healthcare really healthy?

Ann Coulter isn't afraid to use her right to freedom of speech and press on issues of health care.

She grabs your attention right off the bat, stating how common it is for poor people to be found with flat screens and middle-class without doctors' visits, and how the government "helping" isn't really help at all.

Over the years, health care aids such as Medicare and the like have always been a discussion point for elections. Anyone from the rich to the poor wants to know what's going to become of the United States health plan, often being compared to that of Canada. Ann uses her article to not necessarily say these organizations are horrible, but to say our system in general is flawed.

I agree with her view one hundred and twenty percent. Young people, like myself, are forced to pay for the same amount of health insurance as someone 3 times my age, whilst also overpaying to diminish the payments of others. Frankly, I think getting health stamps is an amazing idea.

1 comment:

America's New Deal for the 21st Century said...

Lea raises an important question about fairness - it is fair for the younger people to be required to obtain health insurance knowing that they will be paying the same premiums of that of an older person and be less likey to need health benefits? As for the fairness in cost, the same is true for wealthy indivuals with clout. They are some who receive outstanding healthcare coverage at a fraction of the cost others pay. The current healthcare system just doesn't make sense nor does it benefit the consumers. Those proponents for the status quo in healthcare in American does not understand their health insurance has a maximum lifetime limit. Once reached, the policy is void. Very few people in America really have life long health insurance. Most of them are our public officials.