Reply #16: Reality Crosspost

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tpsbmam
Sat Jul-24-10 03:46 PM
Original message
My Obama/Democrats meltdown

Edited on Sat Jul-24-10 03:55 PM by tpsbmam
I had a meltdown this week. Edited to add the meltdown part: I was literally sobbing, screaming, yelling, swearing up a storm.....a true meltdown. After yet another hospitalization I can't afford, I came home and checked into the high risk pool hoping against hope that it might give me an out, some way of getting the healthcare coverage I desperately need.

Let me backtrack. I'm disabled -- MS has left me in a wheelchair and with too many disabilities to continue to work. It's too bad -- I loved my work, I was good at it, and I spent many years in school learning my trade. But, life throws us unanticipated punches and we just have to buck up and deal with them as best we can. So I did. Then my kidneys decided to start failing (due to an MS thing) -- not on dialysis but I could be any day.

While I worked, I did the responsible thing and built up a pretty healthy IRA -- it would have done me well at retirement. Sadly, retirement came way earlier than I anticipated. Best laid plans, kaput. So I'm now living very carefully off of the small income my IRA affords me -- not much, but hopefully if I continue to live carefully, it'll last me the rest of my life. With all of my health problems (there are a couple of others) and looking at my financial situation, I'm frankly hoping that won't be more than about 10 years.

So, because of my IRA, I'm ineligible for Medicaid. And I was refused disability and Medicare due to a preposterous loophole -- an attorney was no help. So I rely on local community health, a nightmare but at least I can afford meds (most of the time) there.

So back to the high-risk pool. Yippee! I qualify and I can join it!! For a mere $397 a month with a $5000 deductible (the cheapest I could get) which supposedly includes the subsidy. Okay then, let me see......if I don't pay my electric bill, let my Internet go, cut back to eating once a day, give away the only 2 things that are making me happy at this moment (my 2 precious 13 pound dogs), and figure out how to write the next bestselling great American novel to be published in a month......well, gee, I can then afford to join the much vaunted high risk pool!!!

I contacted my piece of shit Congressman Shuler for help. Never heard a damn thing back. Big surprise there. :sarcasm:

Say hello to a newly minted Independent. I've had it. I've had it with the bragging about the "history making" healthcare bill, among other "history making" sell out bills. I've had it with the dozens of DINOs that populate Washington now. I've been a Democrat for over 3 decades. No longer.

Please let them be tough about the fines for going uninsured, the fines I along with thousands of Americans will refuse to pay. Please, please let them -- I'd love to be one among many joining a press conference to talk about this bullshit healthcare fiasco and who is responsible for it.

And yes, I include Obama in among those responsible for it. Selling out to big Pharma, the insurance industry, & private hospitals helped get us here.

I've recently seen some pro-Obama posts here. Good. I'm glad he still has some supporters. I'm just not one of them. Yes, I did have some hope when we had a Democratic president & Dem majority. Hah. The joke is on me.

I hate to see what happens when citizens find out what a crock of shit this healthcare bill has left us. I've seen some of it mentioned here from people who've already checked and discovered that their insurance is unaffordable. I knew it when this bill passed and it's now been confirmed for me.

Crap on me for venting and dumping on Obama, agree, whatever......just needed to vent!
I fly this flag in solidarity.