True, first thank you, my father named me.

I’ve had 21 operations since I was 18, not one was for enhancements (to me I feel okay with what God gave me, and my parents of course).  My last two operations were for breast cancer and placement of a port for chemo,.  The side affects from the chemo will be with me for the rest of my life (loss of feeling in hands and feet, stomach problems that I won’t go into here), but when deciding on which meds to take to combat the breast cancer and the type I had, my choices were limited, because it had begone to spread to the lymph system.

I signed the forms for the removal of the breast that was diseased but when I came too, I had 1/2 a breast and they deem it unnecessary to remove it all, and what happens next, I find a new tumor this past summer and I’m dealing with it all over again.  If they did as we discussed before my surgery, there’d been no breast there to have the cancer return to.

My Great Grandfathers generation was the first to pay into Social Security and Medicare and when he retired it was good for him, he could live on it nicely. Grandpa had to have more in savings to enjoy his retirement because witht he cost of living and the funk the cournty was in he couldn’t make it on his Social Security alone, Dad he never got to collect his Socal Security, he died two weeks before he turned 62, my generation needs to keep working even on Social Security because every time the gov’t been short they borrowed from the plan, and now my children are harping about how much they have to pay into SS and Medicare and it won’t even be there when it’s time for them to retire.  Will all this said and done, lending money to banks and car makers to keep them from going down, well they put themselves in the financiall mess their in, not you or I.  I make my car payments, and I decide where my money is invested, I don’t leave it up to the gov’t because they just screw it up every chance they get.

How come if a person serves in office (elected office) they get a pension for severing from 2 to 8 yrs.  Doesn’t seem fair that if someone is elected to the Presidency and they serve 4 to 8 years they’ll get a pension equal to the pay they made while in office.  I find that totally a waste of money, and that goes for Senators and Congressmen, governors, mayors.  They don’t deserve a penison if they didn’t work 20 or more years like the everyday American person.

I’m scared to death what is going to happen to people like me in a state of constant medical problems with the gov’t being the one making my decisions and not me.  that pharmaceutics companies who over charge for almost everything have such a tight grip on our economy, and research.  I just don’t trust them.  Maybe like in the 60’s we should go to Canada to hide from our gov’t. :)

You sound like Chicken Little.  First of all, there is nothing anywhere that states a person won’t be able to pay out of pocket for medical care they want that their insurance won’t cover.  That would simply be absurd.  Secondly, health care is ALREADY RATIONED BY COST!!!!  If you have insurance, that company decides what they will pay for.  If they decide a procedure isn’t necessary, they won’t cover it.

And while the youth don’t get sick as easily as the elderly, we’re the ones who are bearing the brunt of this health care crisis.  If you have any sort of a job, you are too rich for Medicaid.  Obviously we can’t get Medicare.  So, many of us do without and suffer as a result, all the while our money is getting siphoned out of our paychecks to pay for the old people…..  Now personally I want to live in a civilized society where people aren’t dying of easily treated diseases, and that means universal health care.  This also means that I don’t mind the fact that I’m paying social security when i won’t see a dime.  But it completely pisses me off when the old, whom I am supporting through taxes and providing medical care through Medicare, decide that they don’t want to extend the benefits to those of us who are actually working.  It’s a travesty.