Shame on You Watauga County

Watauga County employees have been switched to a system of health care insurance which is called "health savings accounts." This system literally means that a person has a bank account and that bank account is to cover any and all medical expenses. If you have half a functioning brain cell in your head you know that medical costs are through the roof, as high as they have ever been, and you would have to have one hell of an account with Chase Manhattan to cover the cost of a serious medical problem. Yea, maybe if you make a ton of money this is a viable means of health care, but how many employees of Watauga County are millionares? How many Watauga County employees can afford to put thousands and thousands of dollars away for the fear of a rainy day? This is simply a case of the haves and the have nots. Shame on you Watauga County. Shame on everyone for allowing this to happen. Watauga County employees no longer have health insurance, they have pathetic accounts that account for nothing. America is supposed to be better than this. We are supposed to do the best we can to take care of each other. Health savings accounts are not a viable means of paying for health care costs, period, end of story. That Watauga County commisioners and Watauga County employess let this happen is a real shame. I once left this place to see if the horizon held anything better and I could find none. Knowing now how my home treats the people who work for it, I guess I should have kept looking...What a shame.