When I started kindergarden (many years ago)my mother decided that my brother and I should spend at least an hour a day doing homework. After some weeks, my brother, who was in second grade, decided to teach me how to read. By the time I was in second grade, I was reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, The history of the Second World War by Churchill, the bible and other books, but carrying The Dick and Jane Reader to school. At age 11, I was diagnosed with a seizure disorder, and I found out many of the things I wanted to do were illegal for me. Seizures, mistaken for illegal drug, use caused my arrest shortly after I had been accepted to 3 colleges to work on a degree in Physics. PTSD was the diagnosis I was given after the brtutal treatment in the L.A. county jail / then later bipolar. Eventually I wrote a book on recovery from mental illness, while working in Warehouse type jobs. Getting laid off seven months ago, I was informed I could not collect unemployment as I was also working (unpaid)to help the community, and been without health insurance for 3 years (and often turned down previously). I support President Obama's call for adequate, quality healthcare, but the problems in the bureaucracy, which often insists that those in government never err, and people must be subservient to a bureaucracy (which often covers up abuses) needs to be addressed.