In continuing our discourse about The Dry Heat in Politics, please read on…

…Third point: the health care bill / reform. Let’s see – 32 million Americans weren’t getting health care. Many businesses don’t offer health care coverage for one simple fact – it costs them money. I work in an 4 man office that would cost the company approx. $50 a month extra for a health plan. That’s right – because of that extra $50 dollars eating into their bottom line, this company goes without. Employees here have only one choice, and that’s to sign up and get their own individual health plan (more expensive than the “bulk” deal the company would have gotten), and because of the high cost of individual plans, many individuals actually end up with no choice. Hence, the huge 32 million Americans without health insurance.

Under the health care reform, businesses are required to offer employees insurance options, and individuals are required to have it. What that means is that individual employees will take a nominal deduction from their paychecks to pay for the insurance costs (since the company bought group insurance, the costs go down, so do individual contributions therefore). This isn’t a bad thing, people. Health insurance is good – ask anyone who’s gone through an unexpected medical issue, only to be left with a huge medical bill afterwards. Sometimes, I feel that people are reacting only because they feel that the government is forcing them to do something. Kind of like forcing them to take your medicine. Which is good for you. And will make you feel better. Guess the point that I’m trying to make much of the whining is sounding so much like childish behavior – coming from people who haven’t had to face the inevitable: failing health.

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