Mandatory Drug Testing To Receive Welfare Benefits

The welfare programs in the states are here to assist those who are temporary down on their luck and unable to provide financially for themselves and their families.  Yet, there are those who abuse the benefits by purchasing drug with their benefits and as a result, many states are working on mandatory drug testing to receive welfare benefits. 

Many people agree with drug testing and feel if they must take a drug test to gain and maintain employment, why should welfare recipients be any different.  Drug testing will reveal recipients who are wasting taxpayer’s money.   Of course some will say it is unconstitutional because it violates their 4^th Amendment right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.  No one hears the people complaining how it is unconstitutional taking drug test for employment.  Those individuals want a job and the income.  For those who fail a drug test and become ineligible for assistance, their family will suffer without the help.  The blame can be placed on the parent for that.  The parent should think about their family first but then again, a druggie make rational choices.  It sound mean to make children suffer but a plan of action can be placed by having the welfare drug user go into a rehabilitation center or substance abuse class to keep the assistance.  The cost of testing is another factor which taxpayers or states would have to foot the bill for it.  Paying for months or years of assistance compared to a drug test is financial difference but taxpayer would be better off paying for a failing test than for supporting a drug user. 

Welfare should be made available in the United States; however it should be given to people who deserve it and who can be effective people in the workforce.  The government will not be able to screen every welfare recipient, but an easy way to weed out the people abusing the welfare system is to find the drug users and addicts.

Commentary – “No To Obamacare”

In a recent blog titled "No To Obamacare", published on Hill Country Politics, Hutson expresses her opinion of “Obamacare” and shared her experience with her healthcare provider.  Hutson does give a little insight of her journey with doctor visits as well as the traveling she encountered for chemotherapy treatments she received during her battle with cancer.  Hutson could have given more examples of either how her health insurance is not working for her or data from a survey reflecting how health care affects others, like herself.  I am sure Hutson is not the only person who feels this way towards health care.  I do have to disagree with her statement regarding doctors not wanting to deal with the insurance paperwork.  Doctors and others who provide medical treatments have a staff or medical billing section to handle the task of insurance paperwork.  Therefore, doctors are able to practice medicine.  I have been fortunate to have one of the best healthcare insurance plans from my employer even though I have to choose my doctors from a “network”.  In any case regarding my health, I am in control and if I do not approve of the doctor I selected or treatments, I have the option to go elsewhere.  I believe ever person with insurance has the same option as well.

Against The Odds - Oral Contraceptives

Examine what the world coming to when our president and government is mandating oral contraceptives to be part of the preventative medicine in health care plans.  There are better means of making other drugs or treatment free of charge than preventing future pregnancies. 

Pregnancy is not an ill ridden disease and sex is not a deadly medical emergency.  Our minds wonder why the president and the government express concern over the importance to support free birth control pills to insulin or medical equipment.  They are just giving the green light to have tons of sex and no baby.  The citizens of the United States should not have to fund their promiscuous lives.

What needs to happen with our health care is helping those who need high blood pressure medication, insulin for their diabetics’ needs or chemotherapy for cancer patients.  These are the things that count because people can actually die without those types of medications and are costly.  A cancer patient will be more grateful for a free chemotherapy session to kill the cancer cells that consume their body.  I seriously doubt some young adult will die because she did not have sex or did not receive her dose of birth control pills.  President Obama and the government seem concern that Horny Helen does not run out of birth control pills before she hits a fraternity house for a night of boozing and sex.  If that is their main concern, then the ill citizens of our county are in deep water.