I have found so much good info on heath care reforms... At this point I am saying it is my mission I have never really been involved with any group or politics ..
Well I take that back I did join in on a mission to have Andrew be mainstreamed into regular classrooms when he was getting ready to start kindergarten he went to a special preschool and the school as a group mother and teacher fought for the right to have our kids in with the "normal" kids .....
Also when Andrew was in high school... I had to put my foot down about his IEP He wanted to take history class every year He LOVES history... Then at the end of the year {or maybe when he had graduated} his history teacher said the other kids were amazed at how much he knew and that it was a real blessing that he was in the class it was good for Andrew and for the other kids Thant made me feel really good that I had stood up for what he needed and not just went with the flow ....Don't get me wrong when I say had to put my foot down it wasn't really a fight,
just standing up for what my son needed..
His high school was WONDERFUL I couldn't of asked for any better people to be with him daily for those years... I love them and he loves them...
Oh and I also had to put my foot down for him to stay in middle school for a extra year so he could be with his friend.... It all sounds so easy and simple there is so much more to it....
In raising children with health issues and developmental issues I have seen so many different things I have so many stories, so many long stories, happy stories, sad stories, stories that would just make your jaw drop ...
So anyways my new mission is health care I guess you may have figured it out by my post the other day so from now on I will be writing more about it.. I will be writing more of what my life has been like in raising the kids and what I have seen in health care myself and why its important to me.....
I don't want my health to be a commodity that is traded on the stock market.. I never really knew how health insurance worked....
We have it, as a matter of fact we have pretty good insurance, we pay out the ass for it, but it is good insurance so this is not about us right now ...
I have also had state medical in the past and have had no insurance in the past.....
When Mindi was a baby we were told that she could no longer see doctors at the clinic because we had no money and no insurance this was when she was a baby, a very sick dying baby she had to see the doctor every week, if not more, I will forever be grateful to Dr. Frisbee and Dr. Anderson for paying our bill out of their own pockets and then seeing her for free..WE did apply for a state medical card but Mindi's dad made 20 or 30 dollars over the amount to qualify and I don't think he was working enough hours to get insurance.. That's just a smidgen of what I have seen and been through in the past 26 years .......
Anyways I will be adding links to this health care plan that I think is the answer to my health care and would benefit my family and my kids and grand kids in the future
Single Payer Insurance
http://www.guaranteedhealthcare4all.org/
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Fight on! Everyone has to fight for what the believe in. I think people that don't fight for anything have a less of a purpose to be here than someone who does. :) I try to take on as many beliefs as possible. I guess that's why my girls do too. :) I'm proud of you and everything you've done over the years with the kids!
You go girl! Stand up for your beliefs! The more of us that make noise the more that will have to be addressed and changed!
La Dawn, I spent 34 years in healthcare management that ran the gamut from hospitals to home health and pharmacy and reimbursement to facility operations. Medicare was the beginning of the end for healthcare finances with Medicaid becoming it's death knell.
There are ways a universal plan could work, but not the way the government currently wants to do it. But then I am not a proponent of BIG Government...they tend to screw up more than they fix. I think Obama has it correct when he says that it doesn;t matter whether it is big government or little government as long as it works. We have had too much "broken" government and until that is fixed any government plan is doomed to failure.
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