We the people of America, are all born to be equal. No matter the situation, we will always bleed the same color blood. We all breath the same air even if some air is not the best of quality. Though, why are health insurance companies deciding, in a sense, who lives and who dies?
Diseases are rampant nowadays. There truly are no ways to determine who will contract which sickness, and the severity of it. In my opinion, insurance companies know this, so they prey on it. There are spontaneous diseases out, diseases that are out of the norm. Some even fatal, but insurance companies refuse to recognize this. This is not due to lack of funds, insurance companies make billions As a result, they keep a fair share of this money because they refuse to finance treatments for "unrecognized" diseases. Insurance companies list many types of treatments that they will fund, but they are very specific. As many philosophers have stated, not everyone is he same. In emphasis, not every person will always contract the same sicknesses because every person is born different.
Along with this greed for money, insurance companies decide on coverage based on family income. Athletes, politicians, celebrities, they need not worry about insurance, they have substantial funding. That leaves the lower class people. What are we to do? Who are we to turn to? What if, on any given day, a relative become terminally ill, but cannot receive treatment because the procedure costs too much. So, it begs to be asked, are we not all taxed citizens or residents of this country? Even though some pay more taxes than others, should some be discriminated against when it comes to health care, just because they have low income?
We are teens, we are the up-and-coming adults. We can receive help from our parents and such, but it is truly up to us. It is up to us to take care of our parents as they get older, like they took care of us. If you were to ask your parents if your family is fully insured, they may say yes, but are you all truly covered. Why should insurance companies toy with your family's health? If you should have to wait for treatment, then insurance companies should cover the common cold, or cuts and bruises. We the teens must become involved i this matter. We need to make our voices heard, because it's not just the adult generation being affected, it will soon be us!
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this is about the bill that Bush is vetoing---the one that gives children of low income families free health care which is what my brother, sister and I have had for most of our lives (we used to be uninsured until we got health insurance through CHIP)
here- this is for all the people who think that Bush is right in vetoing it
I insist you watch this video- if you care to know or are interested in it
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/colbert-report-the-word/2152859691
"Things have a life of their own. It's just a matter of waking up their souls."
--Gabriel García Márquez
http://www.progressiveu.org/231615-this-is-a-muslim-girls-plight
I totally agree with you and the commentor
Tacp1965
Yeah, most middle class Americans should be able to afford healthcare right?
I have a "great" BCBS plan: 80/20 $1000 deductible per person, 50% copay on drugs. Dental that only pays for cleanings for the first two years of coverage, won't cover any dental work during that time.
And it only costs me just over $14,000 a year for family coverage. Counting what I have to pay, plus the $14,000 in premiums, I pay over $20,000 a year for family healthcare.
Yeah, you read that right. Over $20,000 a year. A $9.50 an hour job doesn't even come close to covering healthcare after taxes are taken out. Of course my state allows some of the highest rates in the nation. If I'd stayed in Alabama the same coverage would have cost me around $6500 a year in premiums.
I gotta agree that health care is a touchy issue for everyone in America. Health care has had so many controversies that we don't even know what's right anymore. For people of low income, it seems too hard to access, and for the insured people, they notice that their insurance price goes higher because the government has to be pay for the uninsured people somehow and they are doing it through insured people's money. Am I right or what?
it's actually tax payers money, just like public school education is funded through our taxes and by the state/ and federal government
so it's not really the government " doing it through insured people's money" but tax payers in general actually the thing is that the insured also pay taxes so in a round about manner, the money does ALSO come from them
"Things have a life of their own. It's just a matter of waking up their souls."
--Gabriel García Márquez
http://www.progressiveu.org/231615-this-is-a-muslim-girls-plight