A Modern-Day American Tale.

If you've got time today, read this story in relation to the national health care discussion, and consider the implications of mandatorily sharing subsidizing unnecessary risks once we're all forced into the insurance pool together.

And don't miss this one: A much, much stronger story, about a family pulling together and sacrificing parts of their own lives, to care for their son too.
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Also, does your car insurance pay for your maintenance payments -- oil changes, tire rotations, mandatory upkeep? Do you stay on top of that yourself, and pay out of pocket?

Wouldn't it make sense -- so that consumers can feel the costs of their own routine medical expenses -- if health insurance plans also asked people to pay out of pocket for the basics, so that they actually could bear some of the costs of their own maintenance needs?

Resources are finite, and some manage risks better than others. Why penalize them, instead of encouraging their example?

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Off to water the gardens... No more pictures, until late in the season. I fear I'm encouraging an unhealthy competition of posting garden shots and produce pictures online. (ie/ My tomatoes are riper than yours.) Gardening really isn't like that -- as you come to understand observing the variety of plots and plants in your community.

Make it a wonderful Independence Day -- one and all.