Onasix
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- Posted: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:39:22 +0000
I want to start off by saying I am not a politician, I do not spend all day researching this issue. Respect my view and I will respect yours. I know this is a very touchy and heated topic for a lot of people. So if I have some of my facts wrong, go ahead and correct me, that's partially why I'm posting this. It's so hard to find accurate information on this topic.
This health care issue and basically most of the things Obama is trying to do seem like they are going to hurt people my age. I'm 19 years old, and I'm in college. I couldn't get any scholarships because I'm an average middle class girl. I am average in school, not outstanding, but I don't do poor. I have about a B average. I could NOT get scholarships. I hate to say it, but there were 2 reasons, one being I don't have a 4.0 or I wasn't a valedictorian, and I'm not a minority. Where I live it's hard to find a job, even a fast food job. I have had my job for 2 and a half years, my first job ever, and I've been searching for months for a new one. I've never had a write up at work, I rarely call off unless I really need to. Blah blah, basically, I am a good citizen and I do my part. I always pay my credit card bills on time. I am currently under my family's health insurance, and my dad works for a very good company, Proctor and Gamble, and he has for 23 years.
Now I move to my current health insurance. Due to a lot of the heath care crap going on, the heath care companies have had to make changes to support whatever they have to. One of those changes has affected me, we have a 500 dollar deductible now. I know that's normal for a lot of people, but in my opinion that sucks so bad. Because even though I live with my parents and they both have good jobs, they also have bills, and our mortgage has gone up 400 dollars within the past year. So I have to pay this new fee. People get sick. It's a given. It costs 80 dollars to see my doctor, that's just to walk in the door. For tests for things like strep throat, I think on a bill I saw that that is another 130 dollars. So if I have strep throat, well even better example, I had tonsillitis last year. I have to pay 210 dollars to call off work. With jobs being lost everyday, and jobs being harder to find, this really sucks. I have to have a doctors note to call off work. HAVE TO. A lot of places are like this too. Is this how it's going to be if we don't accept this universal health care? Are the people that already have insurance going to be charged so much extra because of this? It's not fair.
If universal heath care was installed, and it worked, I'd be all for it. Personally I think our country is too far along and too big to do this right now. With issues like the unemployment rate, and taxes getting higher every year, I don't think it's going to work well. I am so scared for the time to come where I move out, and have to pay rent, utilities, pay taxes, pay car insurance, maybe pay health insurance, and support those people who can't afford their own insurance? I understand that some people are unable to work. There will always be people who cannot work. But there are a staggering amount of people who can work but refuse to. I had a conversation with a woman a week ago where she asked me why she should work when the government and other people are just going to pay her to sit at home. There are a lot of people who adopt children just for the money involved. There are people who keep having children when they already have 6,7,8, and they can't even support them.
I go back to my point about all of the things someone on their own has to pay for. If I'm still in college, and I have all those bills, and I have to eventually start paying my loans back, what the hell am I going to do? You can barely get a good job while you're in college without some kind of degree. I know a lot of people are in my same position and they make ends meet, but while I'm in college, working 40 hours a week isn't something I'd LIKE to do but it seems like I will have to. There are so many things that scare me about my future in this country. If taxes keep being put in place for arbitrary things, isn't this going against what was promised when we elected this man into office? Didn't he promise that this wouldn't happen? Why am I, just in my fast food job, and my parents paying for all of this? What did we do? Taxes are a given, but the increases?
There are so many rumors going around about this health care plan. I wish some of my questions were answered.
Did Welfare really increase 22% in funding recently? And if so, WHY?
Is it true that if you are on the universal health care plan, when you die, half of your assets go to the government? So my fathers 700k pension from working all of his life will just be taken?
If you don't get the health care, supposedly you'll be fined more and more every year-- why don't they just take the money out of said person's tax returns instead of fining them?
Are school loans REALLY going to be taxed for this?
Like I said in the beginning of my post, I am not a politician, I just hear what the news says when I pay attention to it, or if an article catches my eye. My dad is very adamant about learning about this plan, but who knows if some of his sources are wrong. The thought of how this country is turning out is scary, and it makes me feel like I'll never be able to make a life for myself.
This health care issue and basically most of the things Obama is trying to do seem like they are going to hurt people my age. I'm 19 years old, and I'm in college. I couldn't get any scholarships because I'm an average middle class girl. I am average in school, not outstanding, but I don't do poor. I have about a B average. I could NOT get scholarships. I hate to say it, but there were 2 reasons, one being I don't have a 4.0 or I wasn't a valedictorian, and I'm not a minority. Where I live it's hard to find a job, even a fast food job. I have had my job for 2 and a half years, my first job ever, and I've been searching for months for a new one. I've never had a write up at work, I rarely call off unless I really need to. Blah blah, basically, I am a good citizen and I do my part. I always pay my credit card bills on time. I am currently under my family's health insurance, and my dad works for a very good company, Proctor and Gamble, and he has for 23 years.
Now I move to my current health insurance. Due to a lot of the heath care crap going on, the heath care companies have had to make changes to support whatever they have to. One of those changes has affected me, we have a 500 dollar deductible now. I know that's normal for a lot of people, but in my opinion that sucks so bad. Because even though I live with my parents and they both have good jobs, they also have bills, and our mortgage has gone up 400 dollars within the past year. So I have to pay this new fee. People get sick. It's a given. It costs 80 dollars to see my doctor, that's just to walk in the door. For tests for things like strep throat, I think on a bill I saw that that is another 130 dollars. So if I have strep throat, well even better example, I had tonsillitis last year. I have to pay 210 dollars to call off work. With jobs being lost everyday, and jobs being harder to find, this really sucks. I have to have a doctors note to call off work. HAVE TO. A lot of places are like this too. Is this how it's going to be if we don't accept this universal health care? Are the people that already have insurance going to be charged so much extra because of this? It's not fair.
If universal heath care was installed, and it worked, I'd be all for it. Personally I think our country is too far along and too big to do this right now. With issues like the unemployment rate, and taxes getting higher every year, I don't think it's going to work well. I am so scared for the time to come where I move out, and have to pay rent, utilities, pay taxes, pay car insurance, maybe pay health insurance, and support those people who can't afford their own insurance? I understand that some people are unable to work. There will always be people who cannot work. But there are a staggering amount of people who can work but refuse to. I had a conversation with a woman a week ago where she asked me why she should work when the government and other people are just going to pay her to sit at home. There are a lot of people who adopt children just for the money involved. There are people who keep having children when they already have 6,7,8, and they can't even support them.
I go back to my point about all of the things someone on their own has to pay for. If I'm still in college, and I have all those bills, and I have to eventually start paying my loans back, what the hell am I going to do? You can barely get a good job while you're in college without some kind of degree. I know a lot of people are in my same position and they make ends meet, but while I'm in college, working 40 hours a week isn't something I'd LIKE to do but it seems like I will have to. There are so many things that scare me about my future in this country. If taxes keep being put in place for arbitrary things, isn't this going against what was promised when we elected this man into office? Didn't he promise that this wouldn't happen? Why am I, just in my fast food job, and my parents paying for all of this? What did we do? Taxes are a given, but the increases?
There are so many rumors going around about this health care plan. I wish some of my questions were answered.
Did Welfare really increase 22% in funding recently? And if so, WHY?
Is it true that if you are on the universal health care plan, when you die, half of your assets go to the government? So my fathers 700k pension from working all of his life will just be taken?
If you don't get the health care, supposedly you'll be fined more and more every year-- why don't they just take the money out of said person's tax returns instead of fining them?
Are school loans REALLY going to be taxed for this?
Like I said in the beginning of my post, I am not a politician, I just hear what the news says when I pay attention to it, or if an article catches my eye. My dad is very adamant about learning about this plan, but who knows if some of his sources are wrong. The thought of how this country is turning out is scary, and it makes me feel like I'll never be able to make a life for myself.