A few of my friends,people whose opinions l respect a great deal, and others keep insisting that in order for them to support President's Obama's Health Care Reform, first, all members of congress as well as the President and his staff must give up their private Health insurance, and only then they would look at the President's proposals on a more favorable light.
IMO this health care reform should be gear only to the middle and lower class, those earnings less than lets say $120,000 a year,those are the people that need the help and whom at this time are being raped and abused by the insurance companies and their cohorts in the pharmaceutical industry.
Frankly, l couldn't care less and l don't want my taxes to pay for insurance for Nancy Pelosi, Hillary, and the rest of rich congressmen and women. They can pay and keep their own private insurance, also if we limit who will get the government insurance based on yearly earnings then the burden to the taxpayers would be much less.
Sadly, l have to admit that the president's reform probably will not pass,the opposition to it even from the democrats is not based on what is better for the American people but rather in the fact that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries are among the biggest donors and contributors to those senators campaigns and of course they can't go against those that give them the money to get elected.
I hope that common sense will prevail and some kind of middle ground solution to this dilemma can be found ,if not ,l am afraid that the banking debacle of the last year will be kid's play to what we will be facing when we can't afford to go to a hospital,see a doctor ,or purchase medicine.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Health Care--My take Part 1
Let me begin by categorically stating that l am a Capitalist and that l believe in the system, simple put IMHO is the only system that truly allows regular folks that work hard to succeed .
Communism and Socialism have been proven to be obsolete and plainly not good for the people that they claim to help, case in point Cuba and Venezuela,both of whose economies are in the worst shape ever and the people are suffering, hell, even that paradise of communism and socialism China has decided that it doesn't work and are working under something l would call Capitalism "Light",and they have one of the strongest economies around,same thing can be said about India,etc.
Having said that l also believe that the problems that our country is facing at this time are a direct result of Capitalism running wild and unchecked by anyone.
The banking industry had a free ride during the Bush administration,with no checks and balance, so what did we get?
The value of all our assets going down to a level never seen before,since the great depression,hard working people losing their homes,and jobs,while the Bank's CEO's were getting huge bonuses and Golden Parachutes as rewards for their incompetence,and for screwing over the country, now we are facing the same problems with the health care industry.
Insurance companies are the new banks of this year,they charge outrageous premiums while reducing coverage,now days the average working person in our country can't afford Health Insurance,and the same politicians that turned a blind eye while the banks and Maddof were raping the country, now are trying to tell us that any regulation of the Health Care industry is bad and that it smacks of Socialism.
l am a business owner ,my wife and me are in our 50's,excellent health,no preconditions,etc,yet our monthly insurance premium is approx $600.00,who the hell can afford that?,l believe we have had enough, someone needs to step up and put a stop to these abuses,l believe president Obama's plan for health care reform,is the right way to go,yes, is not perfect but even the president has said that he is willing to listen and adapt new suggestions that will improve his plan,what we cannot do is sit on our collective rears and do nothing or keep arguing about the small stuff for the next four years.
President Obama is a great communicator on the par of Ronald Reagan, he needs to explain his plan in plain language directly to the American people,the insurance industry are spending millions every day and are succeeding in confusing the people with their adds.
So in this, Mr Obama has my full support, "and that's all l am gonna say about that"..
Communism and Socialism have been proven to be obsolete and plainly not good for the people that they claim to help, case in point Cuba and Venezuela,both of whose economies are in the worst shape ever and the people are suffering, hell, even that paradise of communism and socialism China has decided that it doesn't work and are working under something l would call Capitalism "Light",and they have one of the strongest economies around,same thing can be said about India,etc.
Having said that l also believe that the problems that our country is facing at this time are a direct result of Capitalism running wild and unchecked by anyone.
The banking industry had a free ride during the Bush administration,with no checks and balance, so what did we get?
The value of all our assets going down to a level never seen before,since the great depression,hard working people losing their homes,and jobs,while the Bank's CEO's were getting huge bonuses and Golden Parachutes as rewards for their incompetence,and for screwing over the country, now we are facing the same problems with the health care industry.
Insurance companies are the new banks of this year,they charge outrageous premiums while reducing coverage,now days the average working person in our country can't afford Health Insurance,and the same politicians that turned a blind eye while the banks and Maddof were raping the country, now are trying to tell us that any regulation of the Health Care industry is bad and that it smacks of Socialism.
l am a business owner ,my wife and me are in our 50's,excellent health,no preconditions,etc,yet our monthly insurance premium is approx $600.00,who the hell can afford that?,l believe we have had enough, someone needs to step up and put a stop to these abuses,l believe president Obama's plan for health care reform,is the right way to go,yes, is not perfect but even the president has said that he is willing to listen and adapt new suggestions that will improve his plan,what we cannot do is sit on our collective rears and do nothing or keep arguing about the small stuff for the next four years.
President Obama is a great communicator on the par of Ronald Reagan, he needs to explain his plan in plain language directly to the American people,the insurance industry are spending millions every day and are succeeding in confusing the people with their adds.
So in this, Mr Obama has my full support, "and that's all l am gonna say about that"..
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Facebook | Rolando Feria: A Visit to a Hospital
Facebook Rolando Feria: A Visit to a Hospital In Puerto Rico. (Posted in Facebook a While back)
Last night l had what can only be described as a surreal evening,had to go to the emergency room of a local hospital,(kidney Stones) arrived at about 8 in the evening to the emergency room, now, here in Puerto Rico "emergencies" are anything from a cough to someone having being shot, anyway had to wait about one hour to have someone take my blood pressure and ask me if l was in pain (no dear, l just love hanging out at emergency rooms), l got sent back out to sit and wait for another hour, finally my name is called out "the doctor will see you now".
Go to this dingy office and the doctor barely raises her head and ask "Que le pasa Don?' Doctor, my guts are being tore out by this litle rock inside my kidneys l explain to her,"relax give me all your imformation" this goes on for about 30 minutes, finally she says we gonna run some tests and l will give you demerol for your pain "Thank You Lord". I get send back out once again to wait for the nurse to take my blood and give me the Demerol. Now comes more weirdness the nurse this 300lbs Samoan wrestler look alike says to me "Come esta Don Rolando" l look up and totally freaked out ,here she is ready to take my blood and shoot me full of pain killers,when l relized that she had being a former employee of mine and whom l had fired a while back, also her husband used to work for me and had also being fired, oh oh, now l am in trouble l think,she is ready to pay me back, l try to smile and ask her about her family,but realizing that my life is now in her hands, by now my pain is so bad that l think what the hell just give me those pain killers. Well she takes my blood and tells me "pull down your pants" and gives me a shot to kill my pain, in about ten minutes no more pain and l am flying.
l get sent to this litle room where there are about 15 other patients just standing around waiting for who knows what, but l am feeling great the Demerol has by now really kicked in,the room is packed ,on the tv they are playing in spanish the movie "Meet the Spartans" now, this is straight out of Hunter Thompson,all l can l hear are a bunch of gay Spartans going to war singing "l will Survive" and then Paris Hilton,and so on on so forth,after a couple of hours the Doctor calls me back.'Don ya se puede ir".Its 3:30 am.
Finally l get to go home.
Last night l had what can only be described as a surreal evening,had to go to the emergency room of a local hospital,(kidney Stones) arrived at about 8 in the evening to the emergency room, now, here in Puerto Rico "emergencies" are anything from a cough to someone having being shot, anyway had to wait about one hour to have someone take my blood pressure and ask me if l was in pain (no dear, l just love hanging out at emergency rooms), l got sent back out to sit and wait for another hour, finally my name is called out "the doctor will see you now".
Go to this dingy office and the doctor barely raises her head and ask "Que le pasa Don?' Doctor, my guts are being tore out by this litle rock inside my kidneys l explain to her,"relax give me all your imformation" this goes on for about 30 minutes, finally she says we gonna run some tests and l will give you demerol for your pain "Thank You Lord". I get send back out once again to wait for the nurse to take my blood and give me the Demerol. Now comes more weirdness the nurse this 300lbs Samoan wrestler look alike says to me "Come esta Don Rolando" l look up and totally freaked out ,here she is ready to take my blood and shoot me full of pain killers,when l relized that she had being a former employee of mine and whom l had fired a while back, also her husband used to work for me and had also being fired, oh oh, now l am in trouble l think,she is ready to pay me back, l try to smile and ask her about her family,but realizing that my life is now in her hands, by now my pain is so bad that l think what the hell just give me those pain killers. Well she takes my blood and tells me "pull down your pants" and gives me a shot to kill my pain, in about ten minutes no more pain and l am flying.
l get sent to this litle room where there are about 15 other patients just standing around waiting for who knows what, but l am feeling great the Demerol has by now really kicked in,the room is packed ,on the tv they are playing in spanish the movie "Meet the Spartans" now, this is straight out of Hunter Thompson,all l can l hear are a bunch of gay Spartans going to war singing "l will Survive" and then Paris Hilton,and so on on so forth,after a couple of hours the Doctor calls me back.'Don ya se puede ir".Its 3:30 am.
Finally l get to go home.
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