Check out this article http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/health/policy/14kidney.html?_r=1
It bothers me on so many levels. First off a financial one. The numbers don’t make sense and also on a personal level. My nephew was saved by a liver transplant when he was 4 1/2. By the grace of God he is doing great up to this point. A small segment of rejection but he is over the hump and is functioning well. As you may know I am a RN. I work in a hospital on a cardiac floor. I love my job. I enjoy helping people but somethings don’t make sense. I don’t pretend to have all the answers. Heck, I don’t even understand enough about healthcare reform. I do know that people are suffering. We are a modern wealthy nation and people are not being taken care of. I am one of the lucky ones, I have health inscurance but what if I did not? All it would take is major illness and it would all snowball. What if I had a heart attack and needed a 6month supply of Plavix. Note, if patients don’t take there Plavix they can reocculde their cardiac stent and have another heart attack. Geez things are so complicated. I see patients everyday scared about their bills. Something has to be done. I commend our current President for atleast trying.
Do you have health insurance? I have many friends who do not. Friends who are in school and no longer on their parents plan, friends who are unemployed and so on. We just had open enrollment at work and thankfully our benefit cost did not go up. There are many people whose out of pocket cost has increased. It is costing me around $24 a paycheck for medical, dental and vision. Lord know I need the vision and dental most. I also signed up for a flexible spending account which is pretax. Do you have a FSA? I funded it for $500 this year and will see how much I use it. I think it will be helpful for doctor copays and medicine.
PS if anyone knows how to do a better option for a link let me know 
