I've been pretty quiet the past few days because this is such a personal argument for me. I lost my job in April, (where I was paying 60 bucks every week for my husband and I) and was planning to go to COBRA, at a cost of 1600 a month for just myself and not my husband. That was way more than unemployment! Now Im working for a non profit its 310 a paycheck for half the coverage I did have. My sister is paying 600 every two week through her job, and because of her pre existing conditions she is exempt from coverage from almost everything.

I just want something affordable, so if the hubby's back goes out, were not sitting on a 900 MRI bill. So that if I get pregnant, I don't have to worry about how much the hospital stay is going to be. (Which is funny, since they don't pay for birth control OR for pregnancy) I don't mind paying in, but I want it to be fair; at least equal access! I don't like having options about what I would like to give up health wise so we can pay the mortgage.

And we are a normal family. My hubby and I, to quote drudown, are not lazy, we're not homeless (still have to pay the mortgage), I do like pot but whose to say anything about addicts there?, and for fucking sure we're not a worthless. I just want an option where my family is covered; without having to worry about what is exempt, and without having to pay 70% of our pay each month in taxes and health care costs.

There are a lot of things that could be done with this health care bill, but its going to end with a lot of pork. I honestly am SICK of the people who are turning it into an arguement about how bad the "plan" is. Shut up and come up with an IDEA already. The fact is the government is the only entity that can fix the system, so instead of flaming on a cannabis board that no government official is going to read anyway maybe you should go protest or write someone or something. Go do something constructive.
carinia Reviewed by carinia on . Single Payer health Care In 2003 Obama was quoted as saying he wants single payer Health Care. Ok if it is single payer, doesnt that mean it lacks competition? Forget Democrat, and Republican left, right whatever..... It was described by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (1776) and later economists as allocating productive resources to their most highly-valued uses. and encouraging efficiency. Later microeconomic theory distinguished between perfect competition and imperfect competition, concluding Rating: 5