Although I said I was done posting about this subject, I'm going to put out one more tidbit. In 1957, my grandmother had her last child in the hospital, the last of 8. She didn't want to, but her family kind of forced her to, for her own good and safety. She complained though the years that this hospital delivery cost her "a whole weeks salary", of my grandfather's, who had a good job on the RR in 57. Today that hospital delivery would be more like 6 months salary. Point is. The percentage of a persons salary for health care had risen past the ability for millions of hard working people to pay. SOMETHING needs to be done. My final note. I quit watching this branch for a while because I was bothered by the hard-heartedness of a few of the writers. Some even went to the extremes of claiming they would rather die than suffer a Health Care System. And by implication, any other American can simply die if they can not afford health care. At least that is the way it sounds. I am sorrowed by this kind of cold, hardness, coming from this great community. I confess to a certain naivity about humans in general, as me and most of my family are all about helping the less fortunate, but hard working people in our own community. This is the greatest country in the world, and we can do better than we do for our fellow citizens. A hand up, not a hand out. God bless you all, anyway.
