PLEASE NOTE: This is not a political blog.

And I am not a political person.  But politics are literally everywhere now so I felt the need to make an informed choice. 

I finally did a little research by going directly to their official websites & decided that I am going to vote for Hillary this year.  This is mainly because she:

1. is pro-choice
   
2. wants to expand FMLA access to employees of smaller businesses 
   
3. acknowledges the disparity between men's & women's pay 
   
4. does NOT have a Faith section on her list of Issues (unlike some others)
   
5. has a plan for healthcare reform that does NOT include the phrase "consumer-driven"

I have to say that I am appalled at Mike H.'s supposed plan for healthcare reform; that we need to ease the employer burden & transfer it to the consumer, that the focus should be placed on preventive care.  This is what insurance companies are doing already!  They have these high deductible, high coinsurance/copay plans so the patient pays way more than the insurance company pays (if your copay is $50 for an office visit, you'll probably end up paying 65-70% of the fee while ins. pays about 25%) & their big draw is that preventive care is covered 100%. What a lot of people don't notice is that non-preventive services (as in diagnostic testing or medical treatment for an illness) go to your deductible & hello, you've got to pay for that stuff!  Translation is that this is nothing more than a lot of crap being spewed out to cover up the fact that it's just a way for health insurance capitalists to hold onto their money so their CEO's can remain the highest paid in the nation.