Zach Braff in "Scrubs" is the only thing that makes health care enjoyable.

After I'd had enough reading about shootings in AZ. I stopped by the health section of the NY Times. I like to read health articles, but I don't quite frequent the health section enough, especially since I wouldn't mind making my living as a health/health policy journalist.

I may have steered away from the disturbing articles of attmepted assasinations and deaths of innocent 9-year-olds, but managed to stumble upon a story equally as tragic and sickening: "When Insurers Put Profits Between Doctor and Patient."

"I need to just remember to say you are 5'4 and 120 pounds when I talk insurance companies." This is something my mom said after trying to insure me through a private insurance company. I wasn't exactly denied for being 5'4 and 105 pounds, but I was denied for having a pre-existing illness, allergies; I was essentially denied insurance for taking prescription strength Allegra, and being a few pounds underweight.

Thank God I've never been deathly ill, like the 17-year-old girl in the article because if insurance companies will deny someone for seasonal allergies, what is to happen when someone needs an organ transplant?

I've had a bad taste in my mouth about the state our health-care since I was old enough to realize what a mess it was, probably around my senior year of high school. There was never a time when I really needed health insurance and didn't have it, but there have been a couple times I've been denied or when my family has had to use off-brand, crappy, insurance.

My dad is self-employed so he is not provided with an insurance plan, and my mom didn't always have a job with benefits. Luckily now, my mom has worked with the same company for a while, and luckily I can stay on her insurance for a while, until I get a real job, like professional blogger; I wonder if they get vision and dental.

A reader of this post may immediately think I'm for socialized medicine, not entirely, but if that is the only viable alternative to insurance companies, let's do like the Canadians do, and I'm not talking about playing hockey.

However, I'm not trying to be diplomatic either; I've never really heard anything bad about socialized medicine except from my grandparents who would probably still lobby for segregated schools and don't need a T.V. remote, as the T.V. stays on one station and that's Fox News. So, no I'm definitely not against socialized medicine, and I'm surely against insurance companies as they are right now.

Once again, I will never admit to being a whiz on politics, at least yet, I'm working on it. But I have trouble rationalizing some of the arguments against socialized medicine. For instance, the fact that we don't have the money for it. It's well known that other countries have to pay higher taxes for socialized medicine, but no paying money for health care, that would be silly, we don't have to do that with health insurance or anything.

Oh but wait, we can't trust the government to make sure that citizens are taken care of, no we better leave that up to the insurance companies. If we left it up to the government, their death panels would be deciding who is allowed to live or die, instead we let insurance companies decided whether or not a liver transplant is merely a science experiment.

I usually try to write about my more light-hearted opinions, but this article made my heart beat faster and faster, until it exploded. I knew after reading this article that if that were to happen, even if a doctor could fix an exploded heart, my insurance probably wouldn't cover it.