I certainly felt the way you do…until my husband left his job and his insurance policy. Now, finding affordable health insurance and health care is a major issue for our family and a constant struggle.

Many hard-working, self-employed middle class persons would simply like to be insured in the first place, or be able to walk into a doctor’s office for routine checkups without knowing it will cost them hundreds of dollars they cannot afford.

Our health care system is in bad need of reform. When most people hear about this subject, they automatically think “Hillary” and nationalized health care. That doesn’t need to happen. But our next election is critical in determining whether we DO something about it, or simply continue to have health costs spiral out of control.

I blogged about the major candidates stands on health care reform – - and you can read more for yourself. There are many ideas out there, not just nationalized health care, that can present positive answers to the problem.

We SHOULD clean up the mess we have because it’s unfair and the most vulnerable are having their health ruined, being bankrupted, or even dying from what is just flat out abuse by those who get the lion’s share of the profits in the field without even treating patients (large insurers and predatory lenders).

You might want to check these things out as it’s a hot topic and we do need to fix things:

Predatory lenders who are dishonest to boot:

United Health Care’s scandals:

Sensible plan (not the blurb, the PDF and lots more good info and ideas in the book itself):