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National Health Care

Thus far there has been relative quiet here at the household with regard to my elderly mother's health. She is seeming willing to eat and drink relatively adequate amounts and seems to have her regular personality back at this time. Hopefully, if things go well (sometimes this is a faint hope, but we will see) she will continue to gain strength and have a return to her full self.

Firefly commented to me in yesterday's post about disagreeing about national health care because it has problems in other countries. While I can understand his/her sentiments, I still disagree. I think the system we have now is wholly unfair. National Health Care as it stands in other nations may not be appropriate, but I have the following method that I think may be able to combine the "best" of both worlds and at the same time offer a real solution to combat several of both systems very big negatives:

I think that each and every employer should be required to contribute a "per hour" rate of money for each and every employee they utilize. The contribution from business and industry should be equal regardless of if they hire part time or full time employees. This would eliminate some of the b*llsh*t that places like WalMart do in giving people 39 hours of work a week to keep them from having "benefits". This should also apply to retirement as well. The amount of health care contribution should be based upon the overall NATIONAL health care costs for all our citizens and should be recalcuated and readjusted for each fiscal year. This cost would determine the per hour contribution each employer would need to make based upon the hours of work they have for their employees. While there would initially be some employers that would try to further shrink their workforce, I believe few would be able to do so in the long term and might be more willing to give people more full time positions so as to have better family incomes.

I think the above would be helpful in eliminating what is a grave injustice in our nation... that a person's health care is determined by whom he/she works for and can vary so damn wildly. I think everyone should have the same access to health care.

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