Health Care Reform: The Beat Goes On

I talked with one person who relayed that a guy who had cancer had his insurance dropped by his carrier just as he was about to undergo chemotherapy.  A public plan would guarantee benefits.  As it is, without a public plan in place, insurance companies routinely deny coverage to the people who need it most.  The "invisble hand" of the free market has yet to regulate itself.  Instead it skims more and more people each day.

I admit, I am one of those floundering beneath the waves.  Of course, there is an abundance of pro and con debates.  My problem is, I find myself grasping at whatever sounds good, and according to who is talking, both sides sound good...or bad.  It is my nature to want to just drift with the flotsam and jetsam and end up wherever the tides take me.  I hope I will have the courage to really investigate and interpret on my own.

I admit I have been a little panicky about losing my private insurance because if that happened, my meds would be too expensive for me to afford.  But I admit also that all of my healthcare reform focus has been on me and my needs, not on helping anyone else.  And I know there are many others who need reasonable access to healthcare and I am not one to deny them that.  There is a way to work all of this out, I guess.  I hope Congress takes enough time to do it right.

Carolyn