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Posted on | March 19, 2010 | 7 Comments

I’m a proponent of “health care reform”.  Not for reasons of promoting ”social justice”, but simply because I selfishly want to have access to anti-seizure medications during times when I may be un-employed.  As a person afflicted with epilepsy, I must take medications on a daily basis or suffer debilitating seizures.  Anti-epileptic drugs are far from cheap and the particular two I take each cost $800 per month.  As an epileptic, private insurance is not an option, epilepsy is considered an existing condition, so unless I am employed with a company that provides insurance, I am pretty much hosed with regards to receiving medical care and prescriptions related to my illness.  At the moment, I am employed and all is well, but in the past I have been at the wrong end of a budget cut and had to scramble to find a way to get medical coverage.  I no longer wish to live in fear that if my position is cut, and it takes an extended period of time to find a new job, that I will bankrupt my family in order to pay for medication.  One might label me a socialist for supporting such reform, but I am simply a guy who wants to stay healthy when he is unemployed in order that he can get another job.  Is that so selfish?

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7 Responses to “Selfish”

  1. Hank
    March 19th, 2010 @ 4:30 pm

    Very few people oppose a safety net for persons who may be unemployed or under employed. The issue, however, is whether a safety net requires the complete and eventual takeover of health care and the all but certain erosion of civil liberties which would follow.

  2. Scott Geyer
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:05 pm

    I agree that the issue of providing health care is quite complex. I personally would have been happy with expansion and reform of COBRA – the idiocy of having an unemployed person pay twice as much as his employeer was for insurance is insane. The guy is barely making the house payment on unemployment benifits while looking for a new job.

    However, the only choice I have is to support is the current bill being proposed. Insanely enough, the members of the dominate party are too cowardly to even vote on their own bill.

  3. Martin
    March 19th, 2010 @ 5:23 pm

    Scott, I’d prefer a tax cut that allows YOU to save that money for future needs.

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  5. joaquin
    March 22nd, 2010 @ 8:43 am

    Selfish?
    Uh, you used the word I or referred to yourself 19 times in your post.
    You tell me?

  6. Jamz
    March 22nd, 2010 @ 10:41 am

    Honestly…health insurance should not have ever been linked to employment.

    You should be able to shop and buy insurance from the chick from Progressive.com if you so chose.

    Government limited what was available…it’s was “broken”…so instead of getting out of the way, government chooses to intervene more.

    Makes perfect sense.

  7. Piotr
    March 23rd, 2010 @ 11:54 am

    Scott, you are forgetting one basic premise – the Obamacare is, essentially, a medicare for all. When we checked into what drugs would Peter be allowed to received if both of us were on welfare, we found out that NONE of his current drugs (and you should know how easy it is to find the right suite of anti-seizure drugs) would be covered. So, in 4 or 5 years, some 20-something reject from a medical school working for the Feds will determine what drugs you (and my son) are ALLOWED to have.
    We’ll see how you will like them apples then.

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