National heath insurance NOW!
The Bellingham Herald
It’s embarrassing to explain to my Japanese friends on a lifetime of no health insurance. I live in Japan and I live with multiple sclerosis. I didn’t come to Japan to get insurance, I came cause I thought I was done with living and I wanted to live and see more of the world, I didn’t have hope of living a good life. I was completely wrong, again. Now I use a wheelchair but I have hope I can get myself out of it. The physical rehab is going great and that’s from the Japanese health national insurance. My wheelchair is from Japan national insurance. I plan on getting rid of the contact lenses and going back to glasses and Japan national insurance will help with that. If I had problems with my teeth (I don’t) Japan national insurance would help pay. The insurance is not expensive, it cheaper when everyone pays into it and it is so helpful to have. My mother is back in the U.S. and I’m so worried that she’s not getting the care she needs (I’m 41 years old so you do the math). I know the care available is perhaps the best there is but only if you can afford it. Senator Obama has thrown his support behind national insurance and I back him and support his race for the president. I said previously that I would support a republican president but I see the news and sometimes you may see truth in the reporting (never from fox) and I see the standards are falling fast someone is needed to stop the collapse and give back to the people.
To summarize:
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Tuesday offered a plan to provide health care to millions of Americans and more affordable medical insurance, financed by tax increases on the wealthy.
…A memo written by three outside experts and distributed by the campaign after his speech said the plan would cost an estimated $50 billion to $65 billion a year once fully implemented.
…The experts also said Obama could pay for his plan mostly through steps that the candidate has already said he would take - allowing President Bush’s tax cuts on dividends and capital gains and on those making more than about $250,000 a year to expire in 2010 instead of acting to make them permanent.
…But there is some dispute over whether his plan would provide universal care - it’s aimed at lowering costs so all Americans can afford insurance, but does not guarantee everyone would buy it.
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