I sent an email to President Obama to voice my opinion about the health care bill. I know it was to late, but I still felt like it would be ok to let him know how I feel about it.
This is not going to be word for word but in that email I said:
"President Obama,
I supported you in the beginning, and I'm trying to continue to support you, but sometimes it seems like you are trying to do to much at once.
People aren't seeing enough of a change and I fear you will not be re-elected, and won't be able to finish what you have started. But I'd like to ask one question. When do we get to vote on the health care bill? Because after all, it is our health care that is in question. I believe that no one person should assume that he or she knows what's best for millions of others." And I sent it off through the email waves.
Of course I know we aren't going to get to vote on it. But it would be nice for once to be able to have a voice in a major decision like that: whether it be health care or going to war.
Giving the people who are homeless, on welfare, or have lost their jobs the new health care deal is a good idea but forcing it on someone who already has health insuance isn't right.
Because of my severe arthritis, I cannot get health insurance through a regular carrier. I have to get it from the state of Wisconsin. I pay 1800.00 every three months, and my son, who I also pay for because he can't afford it, needs to do the same because of his psoriasis, so his is about 800.00 every three months. But the actual coverage is very good. We fill out a form once a year listing our yearly income plus how much we pay for medications out-of-pocket and they adjust the premium accordingly. If they need to lower the premium, they also lower the deductable for doctor/hospital and for medications, which is nice. In 2009, I had about 3 months where I paid no co pay or anything else for my medications, which come to about $ 700.00 a month.

I'd like to see all the people who lost their job and insurance coverage, have their insurance paid for by the president (G.W.Bush) and the administration, from 2000-2008, responsible for outsourcing the jobs to begin with. That administration and it's leader should also pay for the loans that the workers couldn't pay back because of what the government was allowed to do. But once again, I know that isn't going to happen.
I feel bad for all those people who lost their jobs and in many cases their homes and belongings. That president and administration should never have been allowed to do what they did. That's what happens when everyone just sits back and fails to pay attention to what Washington is doing. If we had, Bush would not have served a second term. If we had paid even closer attention, Bush wouldn't have even became president to start with.
I hope we all learned the hard way that lesson in those 8 years. I hope we no longer will sit in our recliner chairs, with our remote controls and our potato chips, watching the football game, blind to whats being done in Washington behind our backs, without our knowledge.
I hope that we will now keep a close watch on whats being voted on in congress by the lawmakers.
President Obama claims he wants to communicate with the us, the American citizens. I certainly hope he gets what he wants. I for one will actually be telling him what I think, instead of mumbling about it to myself or discussing with someone else. And I will be watching the government channel on my tv much more often.

Health Care Reform.....
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Don't like what's going on in Washington?
Don't like the way things are being run?
Even if you voted for President Obama, because goodness knows, something needed to be done, but you don't like the road we're going down...
MAKE SOME NOISE!!
I did but I can't do it by myself, we all need to let him know how we feel. But one letter isn't going to do any good. The subject doesn't have to be Health Care Reform, it can be anything. The war, unemployment, whatever you would like to see worked on and improved.
There is a 2,500 word limit if you're using the space they provide to send an email message plus you need to provide your information. At the bottom there is also a place to click if you desire updates and/or a personal response.
Visit:
www.whitehouse.gov/contact

At the above internet address you will find, in the upper right corner, the words "contact us". Clicking there will produce a column that has a regular mailing address for hand written letters. You know, the old fashioned kind that still require an envelope and a stamp.
You will also find a "comment" phone number.
President Obama has said that he wants to be able to have opinions from the public, he wants us to communicate with him.
When he first brought up the Health Care Reform, we voiced our opinion loud enough for him to back off a bit and make it so if we want it then we can sign up for it instead of forcing it on us. But still he went ahead with it, though we plainly said NO! so in reality he didn't listen. And if you read it, it still sounds like we will be forced to have it.
And anyone who has it already, Canada, or Europe, will say they don't like it. They claim to have to wait forever for an appointment and supposedly people have died waiting to get an appointment.
But I wonder if those opinions aren't gathered by people who own or work at health insurance agencys and who realize that eventually they will be out of a job because of the new health care bill.
But who knows? Maybe it will turn out to be a good thing afterall.