The whole concept that the government, ANY government, should foot most of the bill for our health care is ludicrous. The concept that anybody has a "right"to such a thing is also ludicrous. I feel like it won't be much longer before our American health care system will implode. I'm 55 and have been a tax payer since I was a teenager. I take relatively good care of myself but if I was told tomorrow I needed expensive chemo or something similar that I could not afford, I would not seek to have or expect somebody else to pay for it. I've come to the conclusion that when it's your time to go, it's your time, for pete sake. I'm a medical transcriber and cannot believe the amount of medications so many people are on, for example, or the procedures they undergo more than once, most of them just a stopgap so they can hobble on for a few more years at most. Or lie around in a nursing home for a few more years, who wants to??? What bull. Our American system is incredibly abused by folks who aren't truly sick, also, which is why things are in such a mess. And President Obama will not be able to fix the mess, either, that's also a hoot. Maybe we Americans need a taste of reality. One thing is sure, it can't go on forever like it has for so long now, and we will probably get what we deserve.
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