Michigan Governor on Government Power Control

Polling everyone I know about the health care reform bill, I find 50 % are for it and 50% are against it... though I have yet to find one who can tell me with certainty, what it contains.
The arguments for the new bill boil down to..."Health Care is too expensive now. After this bill it will be cheaper." The arguments against the new bill boil down to "Health Care is fine now. It will cost more with this bill and be less effective." ...all depends on who you ask.

I do not like the system in place now. Nor do I like what is being offerred. In both cases, they collect my means of paying for my health and then tell me how it can be spent. They support a system of required pharmaceutical ingestion which I do not condone. Neither plan covers the classical homeopathic care I choose. Both plans refuse to cover the early preventive measures I demand, such as massage, health spa, nutritional supplements, organic fresh whole food. I have yet to find one that reimburses me for my exercise time. If I am going to allocate $400+ per month for my well being, I want Health Assurance, not Medical Insurance.

Beware any political policy reduced to two choices. Neither one is good for you and either one serves them, not us. I want the one that nourishes me. At least now I can opt out and invest in my health as I see fit.

The Mennonite Community in the Eastern Pennsylvania region has a wonderful system. Everyone pays into a church health fund and when you need care, be it holistic or natural or homeopathic or experimental or supplemental... you go, you pay and submit the bill and proof of your payment to the fund for reimbursement... no questions asked. Of course, the Mennonites live the Golden Rule doing unto others as they would have others do unto them and believe that if you don't work you don't eat and that idle hands are the devil's workplace... so there is a built in moral safeguard against abuse of the system.

Last I saw 'round here its every man for himself and get all you can out of the system no matter which side you are on. After all, they don't pay near enough anyway, right? No health care system will work under that attitude. For when you pay people to be sick, you get an awful lot of sick people.
I, personally, do NOT want to be one of them.
~Loretta Darling Nicola~