family health insurance
family health insurance coverage should be one of the basic rights of being an American. Having your family be able to get the medical attention they need, seems to be more important than just about any other right or freedom we have in this country. I hear people debating that fact that if we moved to an all inclusive health plan for all, then the quality of care will go down. My real question is for who? Certainly not for all the people who have no insurance if we don't move toward this type of system. I don't think that most people think of it that way. I guess I think about it as if, if I were sitting down to eat a 10 oz steak and there was a starving child sitting down next to me, would I not give them half, or perhaps even the whole thing. I think that perhaps we need to stop being so self centered in our thinking and start realizing that in this country in 2006 we had 4.8 million children in this country without medical insurance. It seems to me that if we really need to sacrifice a little bit of our care for them, we should. There is no excuse, and if you think that this number is staggering trust me, I am sure that when the figures come out for this year (which probably won't happen for another 2 years) you will see that the numbers of uninsured Americans climbs way up. I am sure that all this war expense, coupled with the rising cost of fuel, and then add to it all the soldier's families who may be left without anything, the numbers are really going to be astronomical.
As a country we need to start putting our foot down as to what we want and need. We need everyone fed, we need health care, we don't need to fight in a foreign country for other people's freedom. That may be a nice thing to do (still not sure on that) but when we are spending trillions of dollars to help another country, why are we allowing our own sick to dye and hungry to starve. Seems to me that we need to refocus and take care of ourselves first and everything else second. We should have some basic right to try and survive, and if we can afford this war then we can afford health care for all and food for all.