Health care....

Although I am a very political person.....or, should I say anti-political?  Depends on the day, I guess.  Anywho, I told myself that I wouldn't get too political on my blog.  How many people want to hear crap about politics?  Smartly, not many. 

However, I feel the need to point out, as I see universal(-ish) health care dying for the second time in my lifetime...what the french is wrong with us that we can spend trillions on other countries, and wars, and killing, and bank bailouts, and every other damn thing, but we cannot even come close to taking care of our own people in the most fundamental of ways???

Health care for all seems like a no brainer.  No. Effing.  Brainer.  An unhealthy society, a sick society, is a very unproductive society.  No healthcare = more time missed from work, people's illnesses going unchecked for much longer so that they get much sicker, people having to default on their bills, loans and mortgages, families losing mom or dad and going on welfare, kids being dumped into foster care, folks having to dump their elderly parents onto the state, bankruptcies.....the list goes on, and on, and on.

When are we going to wake up and do what is both the right thing to do, and the SMART thing to do???!!  God only knows.

~Jenn