Dear GOP - the collective you are an Idiot
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teresafloydI found this at fayanora.livejournal.com/855750.html and I approve of this message! I will be going back to her post to read her story after it is posted. and will make a comment in my own journal.
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ladyqkat at Dear GOP - the collective you are an Idiot(Post originally seen in this post by ramblin_phyl. I have been notified that it was originally posted by suricattus in her journal post. The story and words are hers, but I do believe that it needs to go viral and that as many people as possible need to get their stories out there. Only by making a noise about this can we make a change in our society.)
There is a move afoot in the nation -driven by the GOP - to repeal the new health care laws, to protect corporate interests, to defend against fear-mongering (and stupid) cries of "socialism!", and to ensure that people are forced to choose between keeping a roof over their heads or getting necessary health care.
This movement is killing people.
Think I'm overstating the fact?
Ask the friends and family of writer/reviewer Melissa Mia Hall, who died of a heart attack last week because she was so terrified of medical bills, she didn't go see a doctor who could have saved her life.
From another writer friend: One person. Not the only one. That could have been me. Yeah, I have access to insurance -- I live in New York City, which is freelancer-friendly, and have access to freelancer advocacy groups. Through them, I can pay over $400/month ($5,760/year) as a single, healthy woman, so that if I go to the hospital I'm not driven to bankruptcy. But a doctor's appointment - a routine physical - can still cost me several hundred dollars each visit. So unless something's terribly wrong? I won't go.
My husband worked for the government for 30 years. We have government employee (retired) insurance. It is the only thing of value he took away from that job. His pension is pitiful. He still works part time. My writing income has diminished drastically. Our combined income is now less than what it was before T retired fifteen years ago. Inflation has diminished it further. In the last 30 days I have racked up over $8000 in medical bills for tests and the beginning of treatment. Our co-pay is 20% after the deductible. And there is more to come. Our savings are already gone. I have the gold standard of insurance and I still can't pay all the medical bills.
Another friend lost her insurance when her husband lost his job. She couldn't afford medication and ended up bed ridden for three months at the end of over a year of no job and therefore no insurance until he found work again.
It's our responsibility. All of us, together. As a nation.
EtA: Nobody is trying to put insurance companies out of business. They will always be able to offer a better plan for a premium. We simply want to ensure that every citizen - from infant to senior citizen - doesn't have to choose between medical care, and keeping a roof over their heads, or having enough to eat.
We're trying to get this to go viral. Pass it along.
ramblin_phyl. I have been notified that it was originally posted by suricattus in her journal post. The story and words are hers, but I do believe that it needs to go viral and that as many people as possible need to get their stories out there. Only by making a noise about this can we make a change in our society.)There is a move afoot in the nation -driven by the GOP - to repeal the new health care laws, to protect corporate interests, to defend against fear-mongering (and stupid) cries of "socialism!", and to ensure that people are forced to choose between keeping a roof over their heads or getting necessary health care.
This movement is killing people.
Think I'm overstating the fact?
Ask the friends and family of writer/reviewer Melissa Mia Hall, who died of a heart attack last week because she was so terrified of medical bills, she didn't go see a doctor who could have saved her life.
From another writer friend: One person. Not the only one. That could have been me. Yeah, I have access to insurance -- I live in New York City, which is freelancer-friendly, and have access to freelancer advocacy groups. Through them, I can pay over $400/month ($5,760/year) as a single, healthy woman, so that if I go to the hospital I'm not driven to bankruptcy. But a doctor's appointment - a routine physical - can still cost me several hundred dollars each visit. So unless something's terribly wrong? I won't go.
My husband worked for the government for 30 years. We have government employee (retired) insurance. It is the only thing of value he took away from that job. His pension is pitiful. He still works part time. My writing income has diminished drastically. Our combined income is now less than what it was before T retired fifteen years ago. Inflation has diminished it further. In the last 30 days I have racked up over $8000 in medical bills for tests and the beginning of treatment. Our co-pay is 20% after the deductible. And there is more to come. Our savings are already gone. I have the gold standard of insurance and I still can't pay all the medical bills.
Another friend lost her insurance when her husband lost his job. She couldn't afford medication and ended up bed ridden for three months at the end of over a year of no job and therefore no insurance until he found work again.
It's our responsibility. All of us, together. As a nation.
EtA: Nobody is trying to put insurance companies out of business. They will always be able to offer a better plan for a premium. We simply want to ensure that every citizen - from infant to senior citizen - doesn't have to choose between medical care, and keeping a roof over their heads, or having enough to eat.
We're trying to get this to go viral. Pass it along.
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Date: 2011-02-06 01:08 pm (UTC)We watch wonderful American people who hesitate to seek emergency and routine health care for themselves or their children. They justifiably fear that the cost is financial ruin.
In a civilized nation, a worried mother or father may not be able to afford to take their child to a doctor, even though that child is screaming with an ear infection, or suffering from other routine issues. A person suffering chest pains waits until it is too late out of fear. Someone who is having a stroke deprives themselves of the advantages of immediate care. The advantages of prompt care are not available to most.
Sure, there is insurance, but the cost is too much of a person's income. I see people paying insurance fees greater than my housing cost! Obscene!
People are being crippled and dying who should be leading productive lives. People are ending up on (stingy, hard to obtain) disability who could be supporting themselves, buying homes, and paying taxes.
How does this make economic sense? How does it hurt a wealthy person to pay a few more pennies per hundred dollars to help his or her fellow citizen? Especially when that help will allow that citizen to continue to bear his or her own share of the tax burden?
I don't want to argue this, because, unlike most issues, my mind is closed on this on.
I cannot even imagine that free or cheap health care cannot be made available to everyone on this continent.
OT and Late, but..
Date: 2011-03-12 07:13 pm (UTC)Re: OT and Late, but..
Date: 2011-03-12 10:18 pm (UTC)Re: OT and Late, but..
Date: 2011-03-13 12:29 am (UTC)Re: OT and Late, but..
Date: 2011-03-13 04:00 am (UTC)That is your own personal new year, after all..so I always say happy new year..heh.
Re: OT and Late, but..
Date: 2011-03-13 04:05 am (UTC)