I pay health insurance for lots of conditions I don't have

[SheilaT]

57. I am personally the most annoyingly healthy person out there.

I could easily get all resentful about the health insurance premiums I've paid over the years. Instead, I try to appreciate my amazing good health.

Being sick is its own punishment. Even though I scorn those who smoke, often have little sympathy with those who are obese, and can denigrate all sorts of conditions I think are preventable, I still think that those people deserve as much health care as they need. So what if others make poor decisions? We can work on getting people to make better decisions, but meanwhile let's take care of whatever ails them.

Yes, only women have babies. But not all women have babies. This is a lot like the taxes for schools issues. I can get mightily angry at those without children who complain about school taxes. First of all, I want to point out that someone else's taxes helped educate them. And no matter how many children you might have, most adults only have kids in public schools for a small portion of their tax-paying life. Having a well-educated populace benefits us all. As does having good health care benefit us all.

It's my personal opinion that we are here to take care of each other. So let's do that.