Folks, glad to be back posting after my extended hiatus. I have been busy trying to make a living in the building business which is pretty tough these days. Yet even tougher still, is the day to day struggles that many of us endure just to pay for our health insurance premiums or, worse yet, deal with your insurance carrier on the phone to get information or discuss a claim. Even trying to find reasonably affordable health insurance or trying to understand the limited choices you have from an employer (unless you work for the Federal Government, non-Postal) is maddening. Let’s face it, for the vast majority of us, health insurance and everything about is just sucks and we all feel like we are getting hosed big-time.
So what, right. What are we all to do about it? We’ve watched Congress and the President sell out. Why? Why?, when we are all so angry about it; when we all need it so bad. Why?, when so many other countries have single payer health care and their people don’t have to be burdened with the weight of worry and being ripped off. When they are sick they just go to a doctor. A doctor whose job is to fix people, not to run a business or be an entreprenuer. Or if we go to the hospital we aren’t followed around by some person toting a computer cart whose job it is to find out how much you can pay and to get you to worry about how you are going to pay for the visit even before you are being treated.
This next year, let’s focus on the elections coming up in November and make it a single issue campaign over real health care reform. I think we all need a little motivation so I am going to post the link to the Federal Employee Health Care web site.
http://www.opm.gov/INSURE/HEALTH/INDEX.ASP
Please click on this link and prepare to see just what kind of goodies Federal employees get, including your Congressmen and Senators, the President, and all the staff. Let me give you some facts to start you off with. (more…)