Welcome to my first post on the internet, I hope you find some of my writings at least mildly amusing and somewhat insightful.

I have been watching and reading a lot about the health care debate recently and have come to a conclusion: health insurance is clearly not important. I have seen the debates from both sides of the aisle, watched them try to cut out spending here and add it in there, and one thing that irks me to no end is that the cuts are coming from health care. I was listening to a report 2 weeks ago on CBS that discussed how Medicare would be cut for people who needed to use it for nursing homes, home health care, etc. and couldn't believe my ears. I have voted Democrat for as long as I have been able to vote and will continue to, but I cannot believe the audacity Democrats have to take away from ailing senior citizens.

My grandfather passed away earlier this year from cancer that he had been struggling with for 2 years. During this time my family utilized medicare to purchase a lift chair for him to get up easier. Without this chair, my grandmother or other members of my family may have never been able to get him up and out of the chair at all. When he started to get worse, my grandmother could no longer care for him and he was put in a nursing home in a special unit. Who could we thank for that? Medicare. What's troubling to me is, if this bill had been passed before he died, would he have been happy to find out that there may be a chance he couldn't get the help he needed? Well, knowing my grandfather, he probably would not have complained. He came from the Great Depression and worked until the day he physically couldn't get up anymore. Even in his worst days, he still wanted to be outside working and never complained. For a generation that has given every waking moment of their lives to their country and their families, it's disheartening to know that a man who supported the Democratic Party from day one until the day he died, a man who told me President Obama would make things better for this country and always had faith, would now be thrown under the bus by those same people.

I will continue to support the Democrats, but have to ask these questions: Why cut health care to anyone; poor or elderly? Raise taxes if you need to. Why not make sure that the underpriviliged, no matter if they are poor or elderly, have the maximum amount of help they can? I know we have a rising deficit, but the deficit started with Republicans in an effort to fight an unjust war in Iraq, not to better Americans lives. You are trying to better Americans lives with this bill. So do what this bill intends to do, better their lives, but don't do it at the expense of my grandfather.