Health Insurance For All

Reading the blog "With Liberty and Health Care for All" you would think having health insurance is a burden. What I find interesting is that the author talks about people barely not being able to make ends meet much less be able to pay for heath insurance. What the blog does not say is that if a person makes less than a certain income then the govt. will help pay for the insurance. It is like the Children's Health Insurance that we now have.

I agree with the author that it is unfair to ask our citizens to pay a penalty for not having insurance but right now we are paying for the uninsured as it is. People who go to emergency rooms without insurance still get seen and it's us taxpayers who get stuck with the bill. I do not see why we can't shift some of the burden to people and make them have some kind of health insurance.

It is not fair for tax payers to pay for medicaid for an illegal immigrant who comes into the U.S and have their kids here, but we do it because the law states that if a person is born in the United States then they are a automatic citizen, whether or not their parent is a citizen or legal resident of the states.

I do not see the problem with making people carry health insurance like we do with car insurance. You get a ticket and penalize if you do not have car insurance so why can't we do the same with health insurance. It might lessen the burden on the tax payers who do pay taxes.

The author's claim that it would only burden people especially Texans to carry health insurance is a legit one but it does not tell the reality that uninsured people puts more of a burden on tax payers and with Texas having about 45-50% of people uninsured then it's the Texans who have that huge bill to pay.

Politicians Views on Texas Education

I found this article in the Houston news and found it very amusing that two politicians can have two different views about the state of our educational system. Two political partys see things differently. The article "Perry, White differ on state of education in Texas" is an amusing read about how Gov. Perry can actually say with an honest face that texas kids are getting a great education. He states that the education system is getting better every year and it's because of an increased accountability. I am not too sure what schools he is talking about, but privates schools that his kids go to do not count.

Perry also goes on to say that if you are going to tear down Texas then we don't want you. So what he is trying to convey is, if you are someone who points out Texas's fault then you are not allowed in Texas. How about pointing out that under his watch the education system has failed alot of children and he is not doing enough to help these kids compete in a global market.

Our high school drop out is high and yet our state government waats to tell people that we are doing ok. We have kids that lack the reading, writing and math skills to compete with other nations, who I might add spend less than us on education.

Maybe Governor Perry needs to send his kids to a public school and see how far they go. I bet he gets it then.