The Problem with Health Insurance in America

I have a full time job. Thus, I get free health care.

Since I put in 40 hours each week at my corporation, they provide me with free health insurance through Kaiser. Up until this year, I've also had my wife and kid on it to the tune of $750 each month. A lot of money, right? Well it's gonna go up even more this year to $825!

That substantial increase being the situation, my family decided to buy health insurance on our own. Notwithstanding the fact that we have to "BUY" health insurance, I was hoping that the process to obtaining insurance would be a simple one. I was so wrong.

As soon as I logged in to the local hospital website search on Google, I find all the links to different insurance providers. All of their websites have pictures of smiling families, testimonials about how great their insurance package is, and links to healthy living. It's when I click on the, "apply for a health plan here" links is when I start to see the true nature of these blood sucking, cold-hearted businesses. The health plan explanations on these websites are intentionally confusing so the consumer can stop at the first one and just buy it because they "need to have insurance."

We put such an emphasis on our health insurance system in America that we can't agree between leading political parties on how to provide treatment to all. Instead we have bi-partisan bickering with Tennessee Mayors accusing President Obama of being a Muslim and intentionally canceling A Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving television special to pump his war plans. This story is true!

What race wars? ;-)

Obama has made American health care his signature issue and we still can't seem to get it right. Whatever health care bill comes out of the Senate by the end of the year, I'm sure it'll be a far cry from Universal Health Insurance. And it's sad because, as a nation, we're so rich and so many of us are so well fed, that it's a damn shame we can't, as a society, take care of our less fortunate.