Hillary Care Bad Idea

As with all the political opinions I write about, I write from real life experience, and while generally I get a fair amount of readers that agree. Inevitably I'll get a few detractors too. We go at it in the comments section, then eventually it always ends like this. "Well you got your opinion and I got mine, this is what makes America so great". What they don't seem to understand is that if we continue to go farther and farther left, ones freedom to opine and protest without being shutdown will soon be here. But I digress. Let me get to the point of this article. America has a population of around 301,140,000 people, according to the most recent stats, there are appx. 42,000,000 without health care. That's baloney. No one gets turned away when they have a medical need. What they don't have is health care insurance coverage. Those that do have this coverage according to Mrs Clinton enjoy a better level of health care, prompter service, while those that don't, are left to struggle for themselves, more bull. I've been on all three sides of this issue. I've been without coverage, I've been under socialist (universal) care, and now I enjoy my life with insurance. While I understand that there is a discrepancy in how much one pays according to where one might work. I pay around 150 a month, while the company matches the rest. I have a friend who works for the school system, she pays around 400 a month, but regardless she is covered. I loathe the "that's not fair" arguments, like "I am due this coverage and it's not fair that you have and I don't". This is America, everyone has an opportunity to advance themselves and become successful. Why on earth does Mrs Clinton want to reduce the quality and choices of health care for us in order to give everyone else coverage? And believe me the quality will go down. As proof of my argument, I would like to relate three stories that took place in three different countries.
#1. Growing up in Romania, I've had a few run ins with the communist medical system. As it was our custom to go once a month to the cemetery to weed and freshen up the plots where our relatives were interred, my family and I got onto our bicycles (who could afford a car) and left. Unfortunately that day, someone threw a bottle over a drain grate and it broke with the bottom intact and the jagged edges facing up. At 8 yrs of age I didn't think nothing of it as I pedal past it, however, my front wheel slips and boom I fall right on it with my right knee, the side of which was sliced open like a watermelon. Now there was no ambulance, so my father bandaged up my knee and we raced to the doctors. He wanted to place metal staples in the wound, no problem. Oh except where was the Novocaine? My parents begged the doctor, they offered side money(See socialist care the state pays the doctors, not the patient)(Well our taxes do anyway) he refused. He said "there is not enough to go around and he wasn't going to waste it on a child". He instructed my mother to pin my arms down, while my father held my legs. As you can imagine I screamed during the procedure and I could see the helplessness of my parents eyes of not being able to help their child.
#2. A friend of ours who lives in Canada, had to have knee surgery and since health care is free ( well about 45% of your wages are taxed to help with this free medical) he had to make an appointment to receive this surgery 3 months in advance. When the day came, he took off from work, went to the hospital, was prepped when all of a sudden an emergency came up and he was bumped. They told him sorry and to come back another time since there are no other slots available that day. Missed time from work, the surgery was canceled, sad. You know I once read that more Canadians die from cancer that could have been cured if in fact had they started treatment immediately after diagnosis, but the waiting periods and delays sometimes are the death nell for those patients. That's why those that can afford it come to America for treatment and pay out of their own pockets.
3#. In England, they were proposing a cost cutting measure that would require hospital bed sheets to used on both sides before being removed to be laundered. You know it was done in the civil war and infections were rampant during that time. What if a patient left during the one side period and they turned it over for the new patient coming in? Disgusting, and unthinkable.
Imagine yourself in this scenario. We now are all covered by universal care, we are now all paying around 45% tax from your wages to fund this universal health care ( imagine, you make 500 a week and almost 250 comes out for health care). There is no doctor choosing, you go where they tell you to go. Keep in mind that now the doctors get their money from the state, they get paid whether they see someone or not. Private practice no longer exists. All offices are like clinics. Now you go to see a doctor and you have to take a number, say at around 8am. As the office fills up with patients, you notice that there are some coming out that you didn't see going in. This is what's happening. Say, your a friend of the doctor and you need to see him. Well, you just go through a back door, he takes good care of you while the others are still waiting to be seen. See the doctor doesn't have an incentive to be better than the next one because it's all the same to him, and by 12pm the doctor finally gets around to you, that's a 4 hour wait and half of your day is gone. Kind of reminds you of our emergency wards, loaded with illegals with issues varying from baby with fever, to standard pre natal care, bumps and bruises. My son was bitten by a dog on his face. 5 and a half hours at the emergency for 13 stitches that took 20 minutes to do. Wait till you need an ambulance and they ask how old is the patient? You tell them that its your 78 year old father and you get told to bring him in if he needs treatment (it happened to one of us in Romania) If you want better care from a doctor your going to have to pay, under the table. So as my by line says. Health Care is not a right, its not an entitlement, its a business, not a charity (though there are plenty of charity programs for care), and business is in the business of making money. As a last thought, When hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf. Who really came to the rescue? The government or Home Depot and Wal-Mart? Private business will always beat out government bureaucracy and mismanagement. I say NO to hillary care!!!!