by Lyle 'Chip' Chipperson

Created on: May 07, 2010   Last Updated: February 14, 2011

Let's start with my answer, for some people who are currently unemployed or under-employed, yes. At this moment of writing this article in may of 2010, I am employed and receive health and dental coverage via my job, that I pay for. I currently work for the recovering auto industry, a job I most cherish while living in the state with the highest unemployment rate.

However, before this, there were jobs I had that paid poorly, offered no or light health and dental coverage while being under the realm of George W. Bush to the first year of Barack Obama while he was pushing the Universal Health Care bill. While I had some time (or a lot of due to gaps of serious under-employment) to stop to think of the scenario of me getting injured during my leisure time opposed to my time on the job, I will probably be paying a good chunk of money for the bill, if not, all.

It wasn't until I found the right job to grown upon, exiting temp status and getting my raise with benefits (or Benny's as I call them now).  I'm proud to say that I will not be needing the option of Universal health Care for now, I can handle my own. However, I see that there are some people out there that would rather take pride in there life by getting the job with benefits and taking care of themselves opposed to falling under the realm of Universal Health Care.

But before Barack Obama was president or even before the media circus of the 2008 election; in Macomb County, Michigan, where I'm from, those who were not covered by a health care plan could be covered by the county. I found myself having to use the Macomb County Health Plan once in 2005 to early 2006, but I found it myself to be crap insurance. I later found employment with health benefits, and no longer needed the county plan. That job lasted until June of 2007, with the loss of my benefits as well. I found temporary employment with benefits in March 2008, seeing that end at that September, along with those benefits as well.

So, as a person from June 2007 to June 2009 who was looking for employment to grow upon, I can sympathize with those who keep the workers pride going, even when they are dealt with no or lowly employment that could not let them back out of mom's house, or hope to the Health Gods that a sickness is not part of their life very soon.

Otherwise, although I do believe in a Universal Health Care system in the United States, I believe it should have some limits. While some people in the Helium Dot Com community would agree

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