My Car Before My Life

So I think I have found a good way to express how I feel about universal healthcare. I'm not sure if I support the current plan, but I do think that universal healthcare is a good thing. My line of thinking goes like this. We require people to have car insurance. Why do we require car insurance? Because if we get in an accident then we want to make sure that the car can be replaced.

So if we support car insurance why are we so against governtment mandated healthcare to fix our bodies if they break. It's true that if we didn't require insurance and people just saved enough money they could pay for their medical costs, but if that is true then why don't we do that with car insurance? Why don't we just tell people that they should save some money incase they get in a car accident? Then if they don't get in an accident they can use that money for what ever else they want. The reason we don't do that is because nobody thinks they will be the one who will get in an accident untill its to late. So we require people to protect their cars with insurance.

Now let's look at health insurance. If we follow the same logic as with car insurance we will see that if people are not required to save the money for health care then they won't and a person's body is much more important than their car. So before anyone tries to convince me that we shouldn't require healthcare for all Americans and offer them an adordable option, then you have to convince me that we should no longer require car insurance.

As I said before I don't know that I agree with the current health care bill as is, but I do support health care for all Americans, and Republicans need to get off their high horse and stop rejecting the idea of requiring health care in the name of economic efficiency and realize that somethings are more important than efficiency, and if a car is important enough to require insurance than a person should also be considered that important if not more important.

What We Think We Know

So I’m sitting in my health education class and the professor starts talking about what causes stress.  I could write a whole blog post about what causes stress for a college student, but that’s not what I’m going to do right now.  Instead I want to look at how the students responded to this topic.

So the professor asks us what we think causes stress.  We spout off a bunch of answers.  Then he asks what causes stress for males.  We start to list off things and I hear causes like, “Money,” “Competition,” “Future.”  The list continued, but I noticed that the people giving answers tended to be males.  After we had discussed this question the professor asked what causes stress for women.  Once again the responses started to flow.  People said things like “Roommates,” “Relationships,” “Tests.”  The interesting thing about these answers is that, once again, I heard them coming from males.  So why do guys think they know how girls think?  Sometimes I think that I know why girls act the way that they do or why they behave the way they do (I think this way less now that I have a real relationship), but why is that? 

I don’t know that I have a good answer to this question, but maybe it’s just something that we can all think about (especially we males).  Maybe we should try to find out more about what other people are thinking before we pass judgment about why they are the way they are.  This can even apply to the people who we think we know best.

The Intro to My Crazy Mind

This blog is meant to be a place where I can post my thought on random subjects ranging from religion to politics and economics to everyday life.  I always seem to have an opinion about all the crazy things that are happening in the world, and I need a forum to voice my thoughts.  Since I have to feign objectivity in my classes, I won't pretend to be objective here, hence this blog will be full of arbitrary statements (thus the blog title), a few unsubstantiated facts, and lots and lots of pet peeves and soap boxes.  If you dare to read this blog, don't take anything personally.  

"Enter At Your Own Risk"

P.S. I probably made this sound a whole lot more intense than it will be, so if you think it's dull, don't hate.