Medicare and Social Security are obligatory contributions from employees and employers--whether you want to participate or not. And isn't it a great thing that we have these programs? The over 65 population would be in dire straits if we did not. None of us born after the bill passed could conceive of such a socially reprehensible world where we threw the ailing elderly out on the street and allowed them to wither away without medical care or monthly stipend.
Healthcare Of the People, By the People, For the People"
An elderly aunt underwent quadruple bypass surgery last year. She was cared for round the clock in a New Jersey hospital that looked more like a four star hotel than a cardiac wing. Her doctor was a celebrated heart surgeon; her nurses attentive and top notch. Upon her release, she was visited at home by physical therapists, private nurses, home healthcare aids and in their absence monitored 24 hours a day with computerized readings sent back to the nurse's station. It was as much of a Cadillac insurance policy that money could buy. Only money did not buy it--it was Medicare. And guess what? They haven't dropped her since--even though she clearly has a "pre-existing" condition.
Without Medicare she would surely have died. So thank you JFK & LBJ and all the lawmakers willing to fight five decades ago for what we take for granted now.
Something hopeful and refreshingly new emerged from the passing of the health care bill - a new class of Americans emerged apart from the haves and have nots - the "have toos." Those Americans who have insurance themselves, but because of their deep belief in reciprocity and equal opportunity for all, they want you to have it too.
It comes back to the Golden Rule. We wish for others what we wish for ourselves.
Randy, if we followed your theory of abandoning our own people, especially the least among us, you and your daughters would be homeless and destitute.
Isn't it fortunate for you and your family that the majority of Americans still believe in The Golden Rule?
Healthcare Of the People, By the People, For the People"
An elderly aunt underwent quadruple bypass surgery last year. She was cared for round the clock in a New Jersey hospital that looked more like a four star hotel than a cardiac wing. Her doctor was a celebrated heart surgeon; her nurses attentive and top notch. Upon her release, she was visited at home by physical therapists, private nurses, home healthcare aids and in their absence monitored 24 hours a day with computerized readings sent back to the nurse's station. It was as much of a Cadillac insurance policy that money could buy. Only money did not buy it--it was Medicare. And guess what? They haven't dropped her since--even though she clearly has a "pre-existing" condition.
Without Medicare she would surely have died. So thank you JFK & LBJ and all the lawmakers willing to fight five decades ago for what we take for granted now.
Something hopeful and refreshingly new emerged from the passing of the health care bill - a new class of Americans emerged apart from the haves and have nots - the "have toos." Those Americans who have insurance themselves, but because of their deep belief in reciprocity and equal opportunity for all, they want you to have it too.
It comes back to the Golden Rule. We wish for others what we wish for ourselves.
Randy, if we followed your theory of abandoning our own people, especially the least among us, you and your daughters would be homeless and destitute.
Isn't it fortunate for you and your family that the majority of Americans still believe in The Golden Rule?
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