My sister is 40 years old. 5’8″ 350 pounds. Loves fast food/junkfood and her idea of exercising is walking from the car to into Walmart (she gets to park in handicapped, because being obese is a handicapp in America). She just had the gastric bypass surgery and is collecting disability, all on our dime. I am about to loan her money to make rent….
Me 38 years old. 5’7″ 120 pounds 12-15% body fat. Extremely fit and active, have a college degreee, good job, and health insurance. Crashed my mountain bike last spring and broke my arm. Had health insurance (kaiser), but also paid cash out of pocket to get gore-tex cast liner and weekly cast changes (I am way to old and make to much money to tolerate anything less).
Is health care a right? HELL NO! Are there individuals that need a handout/helping hand, sure. Am I willing to help them? Absolutely.
My mom worked as a nurse when I was a kid. Her specialty was with mentally handicapped kids. She worked at a place that was a state run “institution”. She used to take us to work with her for an education. Parents used to be able to dump their “damaged” kids at this place and the state would pay for it. Very sad, there was one woman I remember that was in her 50’s and had been there her entire life, she was a deaf mute. Another had MS.
Would I rather see a health care bill that prevents this kind of mass abandonment, yes. I still cringe at what went on in that place and at MY interpretation of government run healthcare.
I just want to see individuals (if they are physically and mentally able) take personal responsibility for their life choices. I don’t want to have to be PC. I don’t want to have to call drug and alcohol addiction a “disease”.
