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I haven’t touched on this subject yet as I wasn’t sure how I wanted to approach the subject. I am still not sure this is a good thing to happen to the United States. Government basically demanding that all citizens have health care may not be a good thing. There will still be some who will not be able to afford it. Will they then be able to get health care through Welfare? I don’t mean the homeless, but those who are down and out, single parents working 1 job that hardly pays enough to put a roof over their heads and food on the table. Will they be able to afford healthcare? Those who have jobs that are extremely low paying, will they be able to afford healthcare?

Perhaps I am lucky because I have healthcare through my workplace. However, will the company continue to pay for health care for me or will I end up paying more? Just recently I was ill and had to have a bout of some expensive medicine (see blog on Levaquin). I was shocked when I went to pay for this as it was $50 above my coverage. Then I have to pay another $70 for a nasal spray and an inhaler. How can people who have little or no health care afford this?  The truth is they can’t. That’s were Obama comes in. He is saying we should all be able to have good health care. Now picture this: Mom gets sick, goes to the doctor ($20 co pay here), then to the drug store. Sorry, the medicine costs more than she has in her wallet or bank account. Now she has to go home and worry about getting sicker because she couldn’t afford the medicine. Is Obama going to make this go away? Is he going to make sure Mom and others like her who don’t have a lot of money will be able to afford such medication as Levaquin if necessary? Or the $35 bottle of Nasaonex which cost me an additional $35 over my insurance?

Until I see this with my own eyes, I don’t believe the health plan will go as expected. Many people were opposed to it, but the legislature still passed it. Are we doomed for health care? Will there be enough doctors to see all the patients who are ill? Right now I can’t get into my family doctor as she never seems to have hours open during the week when I am ill. Lately I talk to the nurse practioner or to a nurse who relays my message or inquiry and then talks to the doctor between patients, then calls me back to tell me what to buy over the counter. Is this good doctor-patient relationship? No, it’s not. For someone like me with an ongoing illness, this worries me further as there may be times when I really do need my family doctor. I don’t believe she will be there for me. This is going to make more people run to the emergency room for help. Then the emergency rooms will be too full of people who really aren’t there for an emergency so they will tie up the people who are really ill and need help immediately. Yes, I do believe this all may backfire. It remains to be seen just what will happen in the next months and years.

Pray for America. We need all the help we can get.