What Age Am I Covered For My Parents Unicare Health Insurance

Im a 53-year-old downsized soul, who lost a good job and therapeutic insurance coverage three years ago. My good job was as a journalist; I had worked 32 years for The Saginaw (Mich.) news, and my pay was similar to a school guru. save for, the newspaper industry was wretched and so I lost my job.

Here in 2009, what are the feelings of my chooseed federal representatives as a resident of the suffering auto town of Saginaw, Michigan? Well, Michigan is the hardest-hit, most poor state in the countryside, with 15 percent unemployment. therefore, we elect Democrats. However, I am sorry to say that my elected Democrats have not been especially full of zip on health insurance reform, even though they will vote in favor of whatever is desired by President Barack Obama.

U.S. Senator Carl Levin, in office for the reason that 1978, looks more interested in foreign affairs and defense spending. U.S. Senator Deborah Stabenow, in federal office since the middle 1990s after a long tenure in Michigan state government, just isnt very dynamic.

Then we have Congressman Dale Kildee of Flint, whom we inherited in Saginaw given that declining population after the 2000 Census deprived us of motivating our own “local” U.S. representative in Congress. Dale Kildee has been in Congress for 32 years and will spin 80 in September, but he is one of those egocentric legislators who wont give up his tenure for a younger and more enthusiastic representative, sort of akin to a Democratic Strom Thurmond. I know this by calling his uncooperative office for info on details on the economic stimulus; I was referred to federal web pages, with Kildees local office showing no local initiative. Dale Kildee just doesnt do a lot of, at least not anymore, from what I see.

As an advocate for President Obama on health insurance, I should be pleased that Levin and Stabenow and Kildee will aid President Obama with their votes, but I want more than their votes. I am dissatisfied in their lack of active advocacy; they sort of seem like deadwood to me.

For all of those years that I worked at The Saginaw News, those 32 years from 1973 to 2006, I had supported central health insurance. My income for our family was a very middle income, such as around $50,000 during the later years of this employment, but I was willing to pay higher taxes so that my less auspicious sisters and brothers may well get health insurance, even while President Obama pledges not to increase taxes on anyone making less than $250,000. Why is this income level arranged so high for those of us with enough income, present or past, that we should be willing to allotment? After all, should not those of us with decent incomes help to support those with lower incomes? I was willing to pay higher sacrifices for so-called “Hillarycare” in 1993 and 1994, but that was defeated. I was willing to unselfishly share, but most of my peers with middle incomes were not willing to share. They were selfish.

Most people in my thoughts, or more fortunate than myself, have been selfish and opposed to national health insurance when it comes to brass tacks. Thats why we didnt have health care reform during 1993 and 1994 under Bill and Hillary Clinton. Selfishness led to our defeat. And when you think of it, this sort of selfishness has led to our defeat ever since President Harry Truman proposed national health insurance during the late 1940s after World war II.

These idiots who scream against national health care at these town hall forums are very maddening to me. They are mostly low-income and low-middle income people who are screaming against their own self-interests.

The pending defeat of national health insurance is so sad to me. Its like we are unable to share for the common good. I request people may perhaps not be so selfish and so hateful. Shouldnt we all have health insurance?

SOURCES:

http://www.ontheissues.org/Social/Carl_Levin_Health_Care.htm

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/08/sen_carl_levin_urges_democrats.html

http://levin.senate.gov/students/bio.html

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070518/FREE/70518018/0/FRONTPAGE

http://stabenow.senate.gov/biography.htm

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