Rant #1,721: It Hurts To Be Healthy Today

Congratulations to Hillary Clinton, who yesterday, became the first female ever to win a major party's nod as its presidential candidate.

I won't vote for her for a number of reasons, and one of them is because she supports our current health system, which has conveniently become known as Obamacare.

Under Obamacare, everyone is supposed to have some form of health insurance, and many of those who did not have health insurance presumably have at least the opportunity now to have such insurance under this plan.

Bah, humbug! This plan is killing many in the middle class, and I am one of those unfortunate souls, who is paying for others, as well as myself, with this completely ridiculous plan, which puts extra burdens on people like me.

I am being killed by Obamacare. I have paid out thousands of dollars in health care this year versus prior years, because this plan has forced many private companies to downgrade what they provide to employees, including my employer.

Thus, services we either got for free or for little cost before have now skyrocketed, and I am really feeling it in my wallet.

Sure, you can't blame Obamacare entirely. The insurance companies are in bed with this, too, and rates have conveniently risen dramatically since this plan came into being.

I just got another bill yesterday of nearly $200 for procedures supposedly done late last year. I have no idea what procedures were done, only the dates, so I am going to question this bill before I pay one cent of it.

I have noticed that bills are being itemized in strange ways, not giving the supposed owee any clue as to what the services are that you supposedly owe for.

And I am sick and tired of helping others get health insurance.

In a perfect world, it is a wonderful thing for all to have health care, but this isn't a perfect world.

If it is coming out of my pocket, I could care less about those indigent souls who I am helping to get health care.

And no, it doesn't make it better for all of us if everyone has health care. Not when I look in my wallet and see less cash in there.

On Facebook, there has been an ongoing debate about the virtues of Obamacare, and it has picked up as we have gotten into the presidential conventions.

Many people will defend Obamacare with the very blood of their being, and just as many will deride it.

I am one of the latter people, but it is quite interesting who actually is defending this plan.

I have found that those who defend it generally fall into four categories--those who love anything and everything about our president, so whatever he does is wonderful; retirees with good pension plans; and more importantly, those who either work for the government or work for the insurance industry.

Those who work for the government have not been affected at all by Obamacare, and many have coverage for life. Those with good pension plans, well, bully for them. They also don't have to worry about their coverage for the rest of their lives, so they defend this program.

Those who work in the insurance industry agree that some have it better than others, but many state that we are all better off with so many people now covered by this plan. I guess it sustains their profession.

Baloney on all of them. Those who have good pension plans, and those who work for the government, should not be chiming in when talking about the virtues of Obamacare. They are just plain darn lucky that their level of care has not been negatively impacted by this program.

The others who defend this program ... I don't get them to begin with, so what's the use of debating with them anyway?

This is the bottom line, or at least my bottom line: I work for a small, private company that provides its employees health insurance. Due to rising costs brought on by Obamacare, they have had to downgrade what they provide us. Thus, my rates have gone sky high, because things that were once covered aren't anymore, and other things that are still covered demand a greater payout.

And while it is bad for me, what about those who pay out of pocket for their health care? My parents, 84 and 85 years old, are in this boat. Their rates have gone to the real extreme. My rates are really bad, theirs are even worse, and much, much worse.

My father was in the hospital for about two days with pneumonia. I cannot even fathom what that is going to cost my parents. Sure, they use the government plans that are available to them, but those plans basically cover a fraction of their health costs. And you wonder why, at nearly 85 years of age, why my father still works.

I am sure Mr. Obama did not figure that into his equation when he and his minions came up with this plan, how it is actually hurting many elderly people, not helping them at all.

If people cannot understand this, I guess that is their problem.

Now, I have to check into yet another health bill, and try to figure out why I owe what I owe.

So anyone who supports Obamacare is someone I cannot support, cannot vote for, and is someone who I question because they actually support this plan which is sucking the life out of many in the middle class, including myself.

So congratulations, Mrs. Clinton.

But you won't be getting my vote, nor will any other candidate for any elected office who supports this mess.

When was the last time they paid through the nose for their own health care like I do?