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To: DMaA who wrote (325040)	9/19/2009 1:30:28 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) of 794392

Does Michelle Obama think the children should take their own temperatures, arrange their own doctor visits and attend to their own post care while their mothers are finally able to fulfill their fervent dream of working full time to get out of that horrid responsibility? Is she saying having to take care of a sick family member is unfair and interferes with the ability to receive full health benefits? What is wrong with having a plan that requires all family members to participate. And who is she talking about? I suppose there are a few exceptions, but people around here have shared in the obligation of taking care of family for ever and ever. Every feminist I know is really screwed up in the head. IMO Michelle Obama is contributing to their endless helplessness and self pity by giving speeches like this. If women really feel this way, this is not the solution. Life is so unfair. I suppose some women will love this speech because they are frustrated about being primarily responsible for taking care of their sick kids, but I believe that attitude is the exception rather than the rule. With national health care, parents will understand frustration when they find they can't get an appointment to see a doc and are forced to visit the ER, which is probably what most of them do now, but as we all know......misery loves company. Michelle Obama said women are being “crushed by the current structure of our health care” because they often are responsible for taking care of family illnesses, arranging checkups and monitoring follow-up care. “Women are the ones to do it,” she said to an audience of 140 people, including representatives from groups such as the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the National Council of Negro Women. “Mothers are the ones that do it. And many women find themselves doing the same thing for their spouses.” Women also are more disproportionately affected by the lack of insurance options because they are more likely to work part-time or at small businesses that don’t provide coverage. “It’s not surprising that so many millions of women are simply going without insurance at all,” Obama said.

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