Caring about the future of our healthcare system
In recent months, as the days pass and the election approaches, the future of our healthcare systems seems less and less stable.
In researching new developments in healthcare reform and activism, I came across a “haunting” video while exploring a new site geared toward engaging individuals in sustainable solutions to the impending healthcare crisis – SHOUTAmerica.
By haunting, I mean honest and accurate in that is paints the dark picture of our healthcare future. Check it out.
The point of the video is not to be haunting but rather motivational. I walked away from it thinking… if we do not start to consider our personal healthcare decisions (at the very least) we are allowing healthcare to control our country’s economic path and future. [Scary thought.]
On top of the video, SHOUTAmerica has a lot to offer. Community, awareness, action, education. In the first blog post Times are Changing, So Should Healthcare the author says “My interest in our cause runs especially deep… Upon my graduation from a top 20 university, I found myself too old to remain under the insurance of my parents and too easy to ignore the gravity of not having it… I have come across countless stories detailing the difficulties healthcare expenses bring to bear on millions of Americans and their families. But while it is important to sympathize with their plight, we must now also turn our focus to action… The long-term interest of this country is dependent upon comprehensive healthcare reform that has remained elusive now for decades, usually dying on the table on Capitol Hill.”
The more we can share and spread this type of sentiment, the sooner we will see change. Unfortunately, this type of passion (displayed above) is not wide spread or at least those that feel this passionately have yet to unite.
To those that feel passionately about healthcare reform – Get involved! I think that SHOUTAmerica will provide the much needed platform for unity.
What kind of comments like mom, and Deb welty, got to do with Shouting to America for change? I shout out that the President should allow all costs for medical expenses that we spend to keep our bodies healthy and alive allowing us the prospects to rent out our bodies in an effort to earn a living wage Tax deductable! When Reganomics took away those tax decutions along with credit card interests, ( which was actually raising the working class’s taxes, we are not stupid.) is what sent the working class to owing so much debt, along with not recieveing a decent wage or raise over the past 20 years causing us to subsidize our earnings with credit cards and equity out of our inflatedly rigged homes.