Obama's Healthcare Plan

It's hard to point out on first glance what is wrong with this plan - everyone should be able to have healthcare right? Wrong. It is wrong to force people to provide expensive healthcare. Healthcare is not a right, it is a privilage. Listen to what my husband said.

"If I were in charge, everyone would be required to ride a motercycle, and those that didn't would get hit with a huge fine. Everyone would be required to go hunting, or get a huge fine. And everyone would be required to have healthcare, or get a huge fine - oh wait... that's just way too much government!"

He's right. The government is attempting to become WAY too involved in our personal lives. The more involved they become, the easier it is to control us. What we need is WAY less government. It seems that the more they become involved in something, such as education, the worse that something.

I used the example of education - the more the government puts stipulations on the educational system, the more they get their hands into it, the worse the school system gets. The No Child Left Behind Act is a perfect example. It doesn't cause teachers to work harder to teach the kids. It causes kids who before would have flunked out of their grade - several times - continue on and graduate without ever having gotten to the 4th grade on merits alone. What does this result in? It results in teens who may as well have mental disabilities. There is no insentive to work hard and learn, because even if you learn NOTHING you will still make it to the next grade. Back when kids didn't do well, it caused embarrassment to the child who decided to never do homework, because he'd be held back a grade, and be forced to work harder so it didn't happen again. No such insentives now.

But back to healthcare. Obama is trying to make health care equal for all people. But all people are not equal. My daughter, who is only 2 1/2 months old, would not use as much money for healthcare as my grandfather. Why? It's simple. My daughter is breastfed, so gets sick less, will most likely rarely need any kind of prescription, and when she starts walking, a simple slip and fall is not going to break any of her bones. My grandfather, in his 70's, is, by definition, more susceptible to illness, more likely to take not just one prescription, but mulitple prescriptions, and could possibly break a hip just by falling in the kitchen. Not to mention that someone in their 70's is more likely to have organ failure than a baby, and need surgery. He is going to need a lot more coverage than my daughter. Where my daughter could easily get by with minimal healthcare coverage - say 9 office visits a year, my grandfather might need maximum healthcare coverage - say 24 office visits, prescription coverage, personal accident coverage, surgery coverage, etc. So - are my grandfather and my daughter equal in their needs for healthcare coverage? Not even close. So does it make sense that they should both have the same coverage? Honestly - do you think my completly heatlhy daughter is going to need surgery, and take 4 different prescriptions? The likelyhood of this is slim to none. So why should she have that kind of coverage? It's nothing but wasted coverage, and by extension, wasted money.

There are just too many things wrong with Obama's healthcare plan to suit me.