I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. I am all for socialized medicine… just as
soon as the politicians have to live with the same healthcare that the rest of
the population does. Seriously, who
wouldn’t want to have their health care coverage? I know I’d love it. Instead however, our politicians have let us
be bullied into Obamacare. I’ve had
issue with Obamacare since the beginning, my biggest issue being that our
medical care system is broken beyond repair and anything that piggybacks off of
it is just going to make things worse, not better.
The first problem we have is that insurance companies are
already deciding our medical care. It’s
the number crunchers that have never been to medical school that tell the
doctors when to release someone from the hospital, not the other way
around. There is definitely something
wrong with that picture to start with. Now,
we have a medical care plan coming into place that places even more control in
the hands of insurance companies. That
really isn’t a good thing.
So, I’m assuming that this gives you an idea of what I think
of Obamacare in general. This isn’t my soap box cause though, not even
close. My soap box cause is the pathetic
state that mental issues are handled in this country. I heard once that we don’t have “health care”
in this country, but that we have Sick
Care. Mental illnesses are handled
so poorly in this nation that we can’t even refer to it as Mental Sick care, it can only be referred to as a farce.
Since I’ve considered Obama Care a sham from the beginning,
I only acknowledged what I heard in the media, looked at the generalities of
it, and opted not to look into any parts of it.
Then the other day as we were discussing it at work, I made my common
statement that if this travesty of a law had done something about our lack of
mental health care I would fully support Obama and work towards his next
reelection which would entail a constitutional amendment. Turns out I lied to my coworkers and my
boss. I still can’t support Obama, but I
am getting softened towards Obamacare.
I looked it up, and sure enough, Obamacare has a built in
parity that gives mental illness care the same coverage as any other medical
care. This is great news! I’m thrilled with it, it is a step in the
right direction. When I first started
writing this blog three days ago, I was all set to praise the glories of
Obamacare and just accept the idiotic parts and fix them as they fail, like the
Obamacare site was failing. But as I
contemplated and chewed on the information I gleaned from looking at the
Obamacare web site, something started nagging at me.
I had told my coworkers and my boss that I couldn’t imagine
that with all the online mental health forums and groups I follow, I couldn’t
imagine there would be a big boon in the mental health care without my finding
out about it. Why haven’t I heard about
this before? What gives? There must be something that I had missed,
and therefore, I’m going to have to do more research, ugh. As much as I love research ( I am after all a
research junkie) I really don’t like researching anything political. It takes hours digging through the biased
hoopla to find even a semblance of truth.
The thing is, I did something horrible in this instance,
something I really am disappointed in myself about. I closed my mind. I do my best to stay open minded and not to
make uninformed decisions or not try to look at both sides. Shame on me, but at the same time… better
late than never.
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