Health care equality

Health care equality

I am a hard-working, healthy 27-year-old. I have worked on two farms putting in some 60-hour weeks. I have always paid taxes. What is beginning to bother me is the fact that I have never had health insurance with any job. Why should I pay for so many other people’s health care including our Congressmen and women when I have none?

Furthermore, who decides what jobs are more significant than others? Why do doctors, teachers, and mail carriers receive health care but not the small farmers who feed us, the construction worker who builds us shelter, or the hard-working cashier?

Why are people not pounding the streets demanding equality? A friend of mine with Crohn’s disease, a chronic illness, recently had a flare-up and went to the pharmacy. When he had a job with health care, the medicine he needed cost $20; now that he does not have a job that includes health care it costs $685. This is just ludicrous!

To those without health care and who fall in the middle to lower class like me, we had better pray we don’t get sick because apparently, it’s only the healthy or wealthy who survive.

Hannah Todd

Bangor