03-28-2012, 06:27 AM
I can understand 100% why people are against ObamaCare...forcing us Americans to do anything is so ....ummm well UnAmerican. However, working in Public Health and seeing the numbers, populations and the projections of whats to come (don't blame the messenger - Public Health people are just trying to prepare for what the facts are)...we as a country HAVE to prepare for what is to come. To not prepare would be not only be grossly irresponsible but a disaster, for our nation - rampant disease and (taking compassion out of the equation extrememly costly to the taxpayer (cause we pay for it all in the end - if we choose not to pay for prevention on the front end).
If not, reality is we'll have swarms of people in emergency rooms with no insurance - that will be their place of "primary care"...jamming them up for the rest of us. Someone has to pay for those that can't pay (it will be us in the end). So the least expensive way to deal with it as a society is ObamaCare. Providing at least minimal access to care for everyone.
Plus, do we want to have the type of society where a 3 yr old needs a liver transplant and the only way they are going to have a chance at getting one is that if there are enough quarters in the mayonaise jar at a convenience store?
A logical response to these facts can't be, "send them all back where they come from " (that might be your feeling but hellllo...that just ain't gonna happen) or "let them have no care - screw them" (Americans in general... even most of the more callous - as a whole wouldn't allow people , even undocumented people - to lay dying in hospital parking lots without extending helping hands - we do better than that for animals).
If not, reality is we'll have swarms of people in emergency rooms with no insurance - that will be their place of "primary care"...jamming them up for the rest of us. Someone has to pay for those that can't pay (it will be us in the end). So the least expensive way to deal with it as a society is ObamaCare. Providing at least minimal access to care for everyone.
Plus, do we want to have the type of society where a 3 yr old needs a liver transplant and the only way they are going to have a chance at getting one is that if there are enough quarters in the mayonaise jar at a convenience store?
A logical response to these facts can't be, "send them all back where they come from " (that might be your feeling but hellllo...that just ain't gonna happen) or "let them have no care - screw them" (Americans in general... even most of the more callous - as a whole wouldn't allow people , even undocumented people - to lay dying in hospital parking lots without extending helping hands - we do better than that for animals).
Spay and neuter your dogs and cats. Ban gas chambers in your local shelters. User made the call. User made a difference! 