Boy, I must have set a record for time between blogs. Now that both my children and my two older grandchildren have their own blogs, I guess I'd better get with it so they don't think I'm a quitter.
I just read my very first, very short, entry and noticed that one of the things I wanted to talk about was health care. Boy did I miss the boat on that. But I do have something to say about it.
I think the bill that congress just passed is horrendous and that we are all going to regret it if the senate doesn't step in and either stop the bill or make changes so that it will be workable without costing over 1 trillion of our dollars. I wonder how much of the bill the congressmen actually read (of 1990 pages). Who can read that much? The government has already proclaimed that the funds for health care will run out before the century is half over. So how are we going to be able to afford subsidized health care for everyone ? And why should we have to be taxed if it's our choice to not be insured.
Perhaps what we need is an option where one can buy insurance for major illnesses and injuries if we are willing to pick up the tab for ordinary office visits and nominal illnesses (strep throat, sprained ankle,etc)
It seems to me that, as others have suggested, if we were to open up health insurance across state lines, making health insurance as competitive as auto insurance, and limited the amount of money allowable in law suits we could probably cut the costs of health care substantially without having to cost the country over 1 trillion dollars.
In the meantime, of course, we should all concentrate on ways to stay healthy so that we don't need a lot of expensive health care: eating properly and getting enough physical activity are a good start. But I don't want to get preachy on the subject. Especially since, over the past week, I have eaten an entire bag of snickers bars. If only we'd had some trick-or-treaters I might have avoided all those calories, but boy did I enjoy them.
Now I'll sign off but am really going to try to make regular entries.