Folks, It is no secret that one of the main platforms that candidate Obama ran for the White House, was to bring about, reform to the health care system in the United States. If you watched any of his video clips during his campaign, you would notice that health care was mentioned 100% of the time in his speeches. Universal access to health care, is not something that Obama recently happened to add to his agenda - it was in his election manifesto right from get go.
So when he won the elections in the fall of 2008, Obama's supporters knew he would deliver on his campaign promises. So what are you cry babies crying about? Mind you, it wasn't just another simple win - Obama and his party won the elections by a landslide! When I hear the sore looser Republicans screaming foul, I don't pay too much attention to that. If you haven't earned the political capital to oppose Obama's health plan, your voice does not count. If you didn't want health care, you should have voted John McCain to power. Its as simple as that. Incidentally, McCain and his pretty chick are still campaigning for elections. Could someone please tell them that the elections were over, way back in 2008 !!! I kid you not, I watched the jokers singing together, their usual looser Republican songs last night on TV. Quite entertaining, them loosers. Jokes aside, let me tell you why I support the health plan. Back in 2001, when I first purchased independent insurance coverage for myself and my family, it cost me a little over $8,000 a year. Year after year, I helplessly watched my insurance premiums go up, at unsustainable rates. A few weeks ago, I purchased a new plan which includes about similar benefits as the plan I bought in 2001, but it now cost me some $15,000 a year (actually $12,000 but I have to pay another $3,000 deductible, before the insurance punks begin to pay out, incase of a medical problem). How do you justify such a price hike over such a short duration? At this rate, there is no way, my income can keep pace with such a massive hike. Only if everybody in the system begin to buy into the insurance plans, can the overall cost go down. Ofcourse, there is a lot of unwanted crap in the system and it needs to be flushed out. What Obama has done, is that, he has taken a first major step towards covering the entire US population. As time goes by, like everything else, the plan could be tweaked and improved upon. In the meantime, the woman named Viviana who famously wrote on GoaNet about her nephew getting free care in the US, needs to understand that HER NEWPHEW OWES ME MONEY. Its people like me, who finance that "free" care, by way of higher premiums, year after year. Jim F New York
