I have lived in CA for a lot of my adult life. Earlier, as an employee, I had Kaiser, which is an HMO out there and I never had complaints, but I rarely needed to use their services. Later in life, I became an entrepreneur (I hate corporate america almost as much as I hate our dear TOTUS’ economic policies). But by then, I could not GET private health insurance just because I didn’t fit the height/weight tables. But once my business had a 2nd employee, I could get Kaiser again. So I faithfully paid my premiums for years. Then I moved out of state. I was LUCKY that I moved to a state that has provisions in its insurance laws that allowed people to get private policies, however it is costly. I faithfully pay my premium every month. I don’t consider it my neighbor’s responsibility to contribute toward my health care costs.

My issue is ACCESS to get insurance. If there is a way to allow people with pre-existing conditions to even buy into whatever insurance provided to state employees, it would solve a lot of the uninsured issues.

Remember, the stats are, we supposedly have 45 million uninsured people in this country. I have no idea who arrived at that number, but it gets repeated all over the media. We also know that about 15 million of these uninsured are the illegal aliens who are not in jobs that include insurance as a benefit, or they are getting paid cash under the table, or whatever. And don’t tell me that I am racist for making this claim. I lived in CA, it was all over the place out there (getting paid under the table). We also know that about 15 million people are temporarily between jobs or have a short term gap in coverage (again, I read this in the media, who researched this? I dunno).

That leaves 15 million people who either are voluntarily choosing to not spend the $$ to get their own polciies or people like me who have extreme difficulties finding private insurance at any cost.

We can solve the health care crisis by slamming our borders shut, requiring employment eligibility for all new hires (slamming the door shut on the jobs magnet that brings illegals here), severe sanctioning of employers who hire illegals, including loss of their businesses if it is proven they didn’t verify eligibility, including jail time for the executives of these companies. I am a CEO of a company now and trust me, we will NEVER knowingly hire an illegal. We are going to verify eligibility of employment every which way from Sunday at my company when we ramp up our hiring. As jobs dry up for illegals, they WILL self deport. It is already happening in this economic downturn. So that takes care of that 15 million uninsured.

The next group of 15 million have short term gaps in coverage. Often that is due to the shocking cost of COBRA to newly laid off people. I don’t think employees truly understand how costly insurance is that their employers pay for. So they choose to not pay their COBRA coverage, gambling on their health staying good until they find a new job with benefits. Usually that works and it is a calculated risk.

That leaves the 15 million who either choose to not get insurance, or can’t find coverage, no matter what the cost. This is where we can find solutions that don’t require our federal government to screw up our economy by taking this industry over and screwing it up for everyone. Why are we even discussing this at the federal level? This segment of uninsured can be addressed at the state levels.

While I also think AnninCA is a plant by the lefty orgs paid for by Soros, this IS an issue in California, but most of that is their making. They have the sanctuary cities, they have a pervasive culture out there where people easily find jobs off the books, thus making it all too easy for illegals to find work. Everyone is very quick to sue everyone out there, even minor car accidents for “grave injury”. The whole culture out there is one of “me first, screw you” cesspool of corruption. The politicians out there are all spineless wimps who use public money to further their political careers by catering to special interests. They have a “pass the buck” mentality of pushing off hard public policy issues to the next term limited schmoe to gets elected to the government out there. No one wants to deal with the reality.

However, while the health care coverage crisis is contributing to the severe budget problems out there, it didn’t CAUSE the problems out there. Bad government, uncontrolled spending for ridiculous pet projects, a refusal of the federal government to seal the borders, etc. The whole state out there is in the crappers and the net result is they have LOST a lot of their population count. Most of them are productive citizens like me who said, “Screw this, I am out of here” and we left with our higher incomes to go elsewhere. My emmigration choice was Texas (no income state). I love Texas. I would still be there today if family obligations had not taken me back to my birth state (a blue one unfortunately which is also in economic meltdown due to really bad state government).

karenhasfreedom on May 23, 2009 at 3:55 PM