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N.C. Health Care Reflects Big Picture, Pt.1 - Out-of-control fires on both sides.

Like everywhere else, North Carolina is face to face between the rock and the ‘hard place’ (fuel prices vs. health insurance). It’s scary when a normally prosperous nation finds itself overgrown in the brambles of eight years of extreme neglect. When forced in to survival mode reasoning, the most difficult task is prioritizing. Do we slug more whiskey to kill the immediate pain or do we aggravate the immediate pain by meticulously removing individual thorns. This picture has become clear at the North Carolina level but, if it were possible to step back far enough to see the much larger picture of the entire nation, we would see it looks much the same. Problem is, we’re left with only trying to envision it all because we’re all stuck in the middle of it. Our nation’s health insurance/care system has been unkempt for at least eight years now and is so overgrown with weeds that it can’t be salvaged. If this sounds like opinion, it is; the opinion of 82% of out nation. For the numbers, please refer to the article entitled: “Sweeping Demands on Health Care, Pt.2 – What does America really want?” We can’t afford to lose sight of the health insurance crises just because of a fuel crises!

With the fall of AIG, we are alerted that, as bad as things are already, the health insurance foundation is crumbling and things could get much worse quickly. Ignorance in voting choices are as lethal as a fire on the first floor. We must understand the health insurance/crises and base our voting choices on how they address this crises.

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