Rather than arguing with your Republican lawmakers, why don’t you move to Canada? Seriously.

I have a lot of friends in the US, and one thing they all complain about is health care. Our system is a lot better, you don’t have to bankrupt yourself to pay for health costs.

@Be Ceeing You – Sounds like you’re pretty up on our health care issues so maybe you can help me understand a few things. I’m a small business owner and thus I have to buy my own health insurance, which luckily for me (at the time), I was able to switch from a group insurance coverage to a single coverage when my COBRA severance ran out from a layoff at a previous job. Unluckily for me that same insurance premium has now gone up 220% in the past three years (insurance companies gearing up for a change?). While I have no issue with my quality of care, my doctors, and my hospitals, I do have an issue with how it seems like insurance companies have free rein to do what they want especially when it comes to costs.

My other issue is even though I exercise regularly, eat well balanced meals (rarely eat fast food), watch my diet & weight (I weigh the same weight now 26 years later when I was a senior in college) and take whatever meds my doctor prescribes, yet I’m not allowed to shop for better insurance. You see, those 26 years ago when I was a senior in college, I was lucky enough to become a Type 1 diabetic, a disease I had no choice in the matter in getting. So, even though I probably take care of my body better than 66% (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overweight) of our population I’m denied the right to better/cheaper health insurance because I have a predisposed disease, a disease I did not ask for.

So ‘Be Ceeing You’, my question to you is why do my republican state legislators here in Kolorado (where I live) turn their backs on me when I try to ask them why my rates and co-pay costs keep going up? Why is it when I try to talk to them about health insurance issues they insist there are no problems?

So instead of whining about how I get screwed by my insurance companies I would like to recommend a solution. I say add a $1 tax to, no matter how big or how small, any fast food order, tobacco product and liquor product sold. Ditto for any grocery product or restaurant meal sold whose caloric content was above a certain limit. Whatcha think? Or are you like all those fat politicians and the rest of the 66% in the US who would rather scream bloody murder about an idea like this and would rather put the burden on the rest of us to take care of you when all the “bad stuff ” catches up to you? Oh yeah, and I voted republican for 30 years but maybe now in my “older” age I’ve finally wizened up!

As to the melt down that is the American medical system, all I can say is I’m glad I live in Canada, where quick, affordable health care is available to everyone. If you ever decide to abandon California you’d probably love British Columbia, you can golf in January in the lower mainland, and not have to worry about a “Health Insurer” trying to make a profit off your misfortune.

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Get well.