The Voice of a Struggling American. Is Health Care Truly a Necessity?

For this blog I do not have an article, but what I do have is the personal experience of an American who is truly in need.

Cynthia is 62 years old, she must wait three years for an almost bankrupt Health Care system, Medicare. She is a single, hardworking, elderly woman that has worked multiple jobs to support herself. She does not ask for welfare, or any government assistance expect when it comes to Health Care. So where is the Government? What do they say? They said "You make to much for us to help you, you have to make at the most 500 dollars a month". Ms. Cynthia says "I've lived in this country for 20 years, how in the world is 500 dollars a month going to support me? How will I sustain myself with 500 dollars a month when my rent is 900 dollars, when I have to buy food to eat, when I must pay my electric bill, my water bill, and insurance for my car? So yes, I make more than 500 dollars a month, but I must. I do not ask for food stamps, I do not ask for money, but what I do ask for is medical support."

 How can this  possibly be? That an elderly woman, or even a struggling American be turned away when they ask for help, because their not a poverty level status. Ms. Cynthia was forced out of the level she was working, and has now been reduced to 16 hours a week, which evidently does not come with health care coverage. Ms. Cynthia is now literally, in a rock and a hard place, stuck in government limbo, awaiting assistance. For 20 years, she has had money taken out of her check for Social Security and Medicare. Now when she is in need for the support she has paid for,she is to young, at 62 years old. So is Health Care a necessity? Yes, I believe it is, because why would a person fight as hard as she is for something she doesn't need? Health Care is a need for every human being whether they be an American or not, or even in good health, because we will become sick and ill. Health Care is a designed system that is to keep us in good health or to get us there. To have a cushion to support us in our falls with our health.

This is not a story of just one American, but it is the voice to many others in the same situation. One of my mothers workmates are on welfare, she works very hard, but when it comes to "welfare week" she is all but forcing most of her normal hours down the throats of her workmates. This woman and many others have pull the wool over the eyes of the government, in other words they have found their way around the government. I'm not saying that all people who are on welfare do things like this, because some are truly in need.  But for those who do, Ms. Cynthia and other hard working Americans who have helped built this country, are second to them.

This is one of the hardest truths the Government will have to face, the biggest pill they will have to swallow. What will they do for those like Cynthia? I am eager to see if there will be a change, or will this truth be pushed under the rug, and walked over. Ms. Cynthia is not an ordinary woman, but she is extraordinary, and she is my Aunt.