Health Care Coverage and Why its Important

From Stupid Evil Bastard:

The problem of 45 million uninsured Americans hits home. Hard.

According to the folks at Cover The Uninsured Week there are around 45 million Americans without health insurance. We hear a lot about the pros and cons of trying to establish a national health care system that would guarantee coverage for everyone and the debate about what to do about the uninsured has been going on for as long as I can remember. I haven’t spoke up much about the issue myself becaus’’’’’’’’m not really sure how to go about sol’’’’g ’’.’I’d very much like to see some form of national health care for all Americans, but I also understand that the cost could be overwhelming without some serious reforms to go along with it. My apathy was probably helped by the fact that my job provides a pretty decent bit of health care for my family and most of my relatives have got coverage as well.

Today I woke up to news about one of my extended family members who wasn't as fortunate as I am.

Read the rest. It is a powerful reminder why national health coverage is a good thing and that why we as Canadians may disagree about the role of private companies in our health care industry, we can all agree that universal coverage is a basic requirement.