Why to Consider about Health Care When Casting Vote for President?

The health care system of America is crapped. I would know. I have had more encounters with it than I would care to count.

At age of 21, nearly the time my peers were exploring the exciting latest world of clubs and bars, I was living out of my room, bedridden and ill after being diagnosed with lupus.

The chronic inflammatory infection attacks the tissues and organs, impacting each of its victims in very distinctive ways. Mine was inflicting critical harm to my kidneys, heart and lungs.

3 near-fatal episodes over the course of 4 years rendered the hospital my 2^nd home. It is where I learned the disturbing reality about the medical establishment: It does not care about me as much as it cares about raking in a fat benefit.

In the year 2013, journalist Steven Brill analyzed into why our medical bills are so high. What he revealed was a hard pill to swallow … literally.

Hospitals mostly charged sufferers wildly inflated rates for everyday items, involving $15 for a Tylenol, $8 for tissues, $10 for the little cups utilized to dispense medicine and $53 for a pair of non-sterile gloves.

Brill summarized

The health care market is not a market at all. It is a crapshoot. Everyone fares distinctively deployed on circumstances they can neither control nor predict.

The Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, took effect in the month of March 2010 with the target, among others, of containing such prices.

It also was enacted to get the nearly 60 million Americans without health coverage insured.

Obamacare is a step in the correct direction but by no means perfect.

The road to repealing Obamacare, although, is also full of hurdles. A Republican must 1^st win the White House, and even then, Democrats could block the proposal in the Senate, provided Republicans do not eradicate the filibuster.

Being sick assisted me to gain perspective, empathy, and compassion. If a few dollars out of my paycheck guarantees a low-income cancer sufferer receives the similar standard of care as a wealthy one, I am more than willing to contribute.

When you step into the voting booth this month of November, I motivate you to think about health care. Observe it not as a privilege but as a human right.