Health Care Reform...

I have given it a couple days to try and calm my frustrations on this matter of health care reform* and you want to know what? I am still angry. I am not a political junkie. For the most part, I have never paid much attention to politics or the way this country is run. I guess I should feel extremely blessed that most of the decisions that have been made up until now have never really affected me personally. But after this health care reform bill was passed it finally hit me that those days are over and it's high time I start to pay attention.

Am I the only one who is scared about the future of this country? I don't know, maybe I'm wrong to worry about my future. If I were to lose my job in a couple years time and therefore lose the health insurance that goes with it, I couldn't say if I'd be able to afford a private insurance plan. And yet I'd be penalized for that. I would get fined an undisclosed amount of money, which I probably wouldn't be able to afford either, all because the federal government says it's a "requirement" and no longer a "choice" to have insurance. Maybe I'm wrong to worry about any of that.

But I do have a question that I am hoping some of you can answer for me. When did this nation's values and principles change from "you have the freedom to choose" to "you are required forced to do what we say and if you don't do what we say, we'll fine you"?

I feel like I live in China...or some other communist country. What on earth just happened to my FREEDOM?

This is what makes me angry. America is supposed to be run by the people and our leaders refuse to listen to us. This country will not survive if our basic human rights continue to be taken away. I don't think I can continue to sit here and watch that happen. I don't think I can continue to be a simple bystander and watch the country I love fall to her death by the hands of our own leaders.

Well, now that I have that off my chest, I think I might go email the President and tell him how I feel. The secret service may throw me in prison so be sure to come visit me often...and don't forget to stash a paperclip and piece of gum in the bundt cake.

What? It worked for MacGyver!

*I should make it clear that I don't necessarily disagree with having some type of health care reform (at the state level, not federal). I do disagree with the way the federal government is pushing it on us and forcing us to have it.