Health Care Costs are skyrocketing for care and for insurance. The cost of millions not having insurance has the potential to bankrupt this country.
Two and a half years ago I was in a serious car accident and…I was not at fault. A commercial truck rear ended my truck at about 40mph and I was at a standstill. I am healing in every way possible as quickly as I can. However, brain injuries take time to heal and the health and financial impacts are staggering. Costs – health, legal and quality of life for something I did not cause. Many are in my situation.
A new federal study shows that health care spending rose to an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2009, or $8,047 per person—and is now projected to nearly double by 2019.
If we don’t act, this growing burden will mean more lost jobs, more families pushed into bankruptcy, and more crushing debt for our nation.
I am a professional who has successfully run my own business for more than 20 years. I am gradually getting back on my feet. However, the cost of care and the cost of insurance when I can be denied at this time due to “pre-existing” conditions is outrageous – it threatens the financial stability I have built over the course of my career. Future costs of insurance at this time due to “pre-existing” conditions is amazing. Most of us it seems, unfortunately have or will have pre-existing conditions within the next 10 years due to pollution and contaminated food, water, etc. – until we get our act clean. I hear the word cancer now almost daily from someone about themselves or someone they know – it’s scary.
All of us are important. And, without the working class there is no business. Take care of all of us and the country is taken care of. Deny and bankrupt most of us and you bankrupt the country that feeds you.
Act from long term vision of a whole and sustainable future, not from a place of immediate short term gratification.
Provide health insurance and you provide for the health of our nation.
We are incredibly close to passing real health reform. I stand with President Obama in calling on Congress to finish the job of insuring health care reform now.

Kim Conrad
Broomfield

Our Random Articles

More Links