Thursday, October 29, 2009

The 894 billion-dollar decision: healthy?

Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives unveiled the Democratic healthcare plan option on Thursday.

This plan is set to cover 36 million Americans currently without health insurance helping roughly 96 percent of Americans to be medically insured.


I'm not really a big numbers person, but share some things below to further complicate the US healthcare endeavor:

This is a hefty amount of money to divy out considering the USD budget deficit is at 1.3 trillion dollars....not to mention thge national debt of 12 trillion.


However, Pelosi's office says that this bill will actually lower the federal deficit by 30 million dollars over the next decade. http://www.toddalbert.com/files/images/health_care.jpg

My, how lightly I have just stated these things. So let's make this more real...each citizens share (that means you, if you are a US citizen, and I) is $38,679.48.
You may click on the link as this numbers increase themselves daily. You would think that all the wealth and resources that US citizens have bloated themselves with would allow them to make healthier decisions.

Now, I really want everyone to have healthcare coverage they need, but why does it have to be so darn expensive?

By the way, it's a 1,990-page bill...can anybody say complicated?


I don't particulartly believe in this cartoon, but it doesn't really seem too far from our reality.

So much is made in China already, the place were we owe much of our debt.


http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/6798714.html

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