OT: Health and Auto Insurance and Sharing The Wealth

[Guest guest]

Butch,

i always love a good stimulating conversation---and i do agree with much of what

you have said. We all know people who abuse the system.  But, as you also said,

they take advantage now by going to the Emergency room (which eventually costs

insured people as well as taxpayers---much the way shoplifting eventually costs

the customers who pay).  i also am opposed to paying for those who do not

deserve the help. (i would even welcome random drug and alcohol testing for

those on public money--even myself--although most of my income comes from the

insurance i paid into for 25 years--and lowering or eliminating it if that is

what they use it for---just like we make sure food stamps---which you can't even

GET if you're on SSI, by the way,--don't cover alcohol, tobacco, or even diapers

or toilet paper).  But there are those who do need and deserve the help, and i

can't see throwing the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak.  The bill is

not perfect,and will take tweeking along the way.  But i do believe it is a good

place to START, anyway.

Peace,

Vicky