My husband, the master blogger, has been bugging me non-stop to start blogging. Ok, enough already! So, I told him to set up the blog for me because all I wanted to do was just log-on and start writing out the post. I didn’t want to know how to set up a blog, or any of that technical stuff – like plug-ins or themes. GEEZ, who cares! So, he left the room to go set up the blog, and 15 minutes later….voila! I’m a blogger. The sight is still under construction…..hubby still has to do some ‘tweaking’. I’ll put the ‘tweaking’ on the honey-do list.
My name is Becky, but my last name is not speak — the speak is basically my rants. I’ve left part of my first rant (aka blog) on another person’s comments section – but thought it was worthwhile to repeat here.
What do you think of your healthcare coverage? Hopefully you have some level of coverage… I left a comment on Clusterfook’s blog, a blog I read often, on the subject of how whacked out the health care system is.
Here’s a snippet of my comment: ‘I think the system is a mess. But I don’t think Universal Health care is the solution.. That sounds like a cookie cutter approach to health care — one plan, one price — at the sacrifice of the “care” of the patient. This is America – land of opportunity. If we take the opportunity away from doctors to make a living, we will end up with less doctors, less specialists, less care. But we’ll only have to pay $5 (is that worth it?). I don’t have a solution, but there are definitely a lot of people in America going without health coverage, and suffering from poor care because of it. ‘
Open for comments.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Kathi // Oct 24, 2008 at 10:27 am
Couldn’t agree with you more, Becky! We have had several exchange students. The mother of our exchange student from Denmark was diagnosed with lymphoma shortly after his return home. Our Hungarian daughter’s father is a cardiologist. Both countries have socialized medicine. Having heard their experiences and seen their hospitals first hand on visits, I am so happy to be an American. Granted, we need to somehow improve our system. But, it is so superior to other country’s systems. It is especially sad to see our Hungarian cardiologist friend, who is an excellent physician, struggling to provide quality care in a realm of socialized medicine.
2 Aunt Jeanette // Nov 10, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Hi Becky,
I’ve been following Keith’s blogging so now I’m going to follow yours.
Your point about healthcare is right on the money. We don’t need socialized medicine. It’s been proven it doesn’t work. Ask Canada too.
Why is it that everyone expects the government to fix everyone’s problems? “Feed me, clothe me, get me a job, pay my bills, pay for my home….” Geez, what happened to God helps those who help themselves”? My opinion, too much greed going on today. People want all the fun stuff but not have to pay the consequences of their over spending. Then they run to the government for their own “bail out”.
Gotta run, lunch time over. Hugs and kisses,,,, thinking of you every day. Hey, are you guys coming home for Thanksgiving by any chance?
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