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[The Wielding Truth]

I have a son who is working full time as a permanent sub teacher in a local elementary school. He was required to sign a waver for insurance coverage for full time employees to be hired.He graduated from College in 'O7 and has student loans,car payment,car insurance,and the expenses we all have with working. He lives here with us so he has a roof over his head and food, but he has no insurance. We cannot afford coverage. He also started filling in as a server at a local buffet part time.

Friday he woke up with his shoulder in pain so severe I thought it may be dislocated or there may be other more serious problems. He had no pin-point moment when he injured it except maybe sleeping on it wrong. After the emergency room, cost unknown for now, and a diagnosis of he slept on it wrong, they ordered that he take 800 ibuprofen and rest it. The next day he was unable to move it with out extreme pain, and was hot and swollen.

I called our chiropractor and had him seen the same day. The Dr. said it was bursitis and treated it with manipulation and cold compresses. The cost was reasonable, but for someone working full time and making $9 an hour it is another blow to survival.

Having this in mind I asked the women who handles the billing and appointments how it could be so difficult for this country to have universal health care.

It was as though I asked her why she wouldn't love to date Jeffery Dahmer. I steel door slammed down on our conversation and she said that we would never want that in the United States.

Wow. I was so surprised that someone who has to deal with suffering everyday and charge people, most of who cannot really afford Chiropractic care,fees that in some cases considered a luxury expense,could be so callous.

I tried to get though to her reasoning. I asked her how she could not be in favor of better health care. She said looked down at her papers and coldly repeated the ideas of the terrible health care in Canada and how long that must wait to be treated and how they come here for the best care.

Well I was shocked and reminded her that for those without insurance national health care would really benefit. She bristled again and I could see that she had had a busy job to do. We left.

How can we fight the notion that universal health care is the devil?