Health Care and General Economics
From personal experience I've had at least one person without health insurance living in my house for too long a period. It's a drag to listen to a person complain about pains and then not have enough money to pay for a trip to the doctor and complain about that as well. Organic food does not completely stop the ravages of time.
From personal experience I get my medical care either on campus at the University of Miami or Jackson Memorial Hospital. I rarely have long waits and my insurance coverage seems to be adequate and I have been lucky to avoid expensive medications.
There has been much published about the difficulties of maintaining yourself in the middle class. These days, the price of food, gasoline, health insurance, education, college tuition all seem to go up and where I work, people on staff continue to be furloughed for an extra two weeks and they accept the situation because the job market in Miami is still lousy and people now get their news online for free.
Health care reform as it has been cobbled into law now may look like some bastard child of Frankenstein, but it is also clear from the life as we know it that something needs to be done to make health care more affordable and accessible for everybody.
I'm not a bean counter, but I am concerned about an almost universal lack of long term planning or thought. Young adults may not participate in adequate numbers in health insurance plans in large enough numbers to help cover folks with preexisting conditions and other older folks who may not have been able to find coverage previously. Eventually they will move into the group that needs coverage.
Living in Miami, there are lots of folks who work off the books, on the left, and think they are getting break by having their employer giving them a little more in cash and avoiding social security and Medicare taxes. These are the employers that think the current health care system is ok and they are the biggest beneficiary of this fraud. The self employed who never make quarterly tax contributions are also suspect in this matter.
Friday a monster hurricane swept through the Philippines and may have killed as many as 10,000 souls. Oh well, on Miami Beach we are pissed about tidal flooding that seems to occur on the full moon and is being made worse by sea levels rising regardless of the cause.
Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires and other natural disasters seem to be happening everywhere and yet there is little call for a national catastrophe insurance program.
Change is hard for everyone but that doesn't mean we should not try to change for the common good.
From personal experience I get my medical care either on campus at the University of Miami or Jackson Memorial Hospital. I rarely have long waits and my insurance coverage seems to be adequate and I have been lucky to avoid expensive medications.
There has been much published about the difficulties of maintaining yourself in the middle class. These days, the price of food, gasoline, health insurance, education, college tuition all seem to go up and where I work, people on staff continue to be furloughed for an extra two weeks and they accept the situation because the job market in Miami is still lousy and people now get their news online for free.
Health care reform as it has been cobbled into law now may look like some bastard child of Frankenstein, but it is also clear from the life as we know it that something needs to be done to make health care more affordable and accessible for everybody.
I'm not a bean counter, but I am concerned about an almost universal lack of long term planning or thought. Young adults may not participate in adequate numbers in health insurance plans in large enough numbers to help cover folks with preexisting conditions and other older folks who may not have been able to find coverage previously. Eventually they will move into the group that needs coverage.
Living in Miami, there are lots of folks who work off the books, on the left, and think they are getting break by having their employer giving them a little more in cash and avoiding social security and Medicare taxes. These are the employers that think the current health care system is ok and they are the biggest beneficiary of this fraud. The self employed who never make quarterly tax contributions are also suspect in this matter.
Friday a monster hurricane swept through the Philippines and may have killed as many as 10,000 souls. Oh well, on Miami Beach we are pissed about tidal flooding that seems to occur on the full moon and is being made worse by sea levels rising regardless of the cause.
Floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires and other natural disasters seem to be happening everywhere and yet there is little call for a national catastrophe insurance program.
Change is hard for everyone but that doesn't mean we should not try to change for the common good.
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