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I’ve been neglecting the GraphicOnline blog lately (again) since the last entry on Who Is Covered in Health Care (and who is not) in Wayne County. Frankly, I haven’t found anything else worth arguing about since then. Everybody is still talking about health care – if they’re talking about anything except the Colts.

When I wrote that piece about health care coverage in Wayne County, I wasn’t trying to prove anything (honest). I was just curious (as I think others are) to know how many are not receiving some kind of health care right here in our home county. The facts, as I found them, led in an unexpected way. My (personal) conclusion was that even though every provision was not perfect or exactly how everybody wanted it, the bottom line was that I couldn’t find anybody who is being shut out or passed over for some kind of health care.

I’m sure others will want to argue with that conclusion, but nothing I’ve found since contradicts it, nor has anybody popped up with a different view – at least for how things are in Wayne County, Indiana. As you will remember – if you read that last blog, I concluded that our special advantage here, maybe our “fail safe” remedy, is our Wayne County Clinic, which serves anyone not covered otherwise.

All of which leads to the present. Personally, I’m not dead-set against any national plan that guarantees health care for everyone, believing that some such provision is now being recognized as part of our nation’s moral imperative. But I also can see the other side of much current opposition – despite their over-heated hype – that we should be absolutely sure of what we’re doing before we turn the whole system upside down. And I also worry about what could well be an out-of-control national deficit and the tax burden we may be piling on our children and grandchildren.

So where are we now? I can’t speak for everybody else, but I’m still trying to fight my way through all the rancorous confusions and confusing arguments. Does anybody else have this problem?

Well (finally) I’ve found one ray of hope, one proposal that seems to make sense. And I was going to pass it on, for what it’s worth.

HOWEVER, this blog is already too long. All of the foregoing was meant to be a short introduction.

Here’s a promise: I’ll be back in one week with the Rest of the Story. Promise!

–Vic Jose

Vic Jose :: Nov.30.2009 :: Uncategorized ::

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