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Brigid

(17,621 posts)
Thu Jul 5, 2012, 09:10 PM Jul 2012

What a difference a few hundred million makes.

I don't know how much Mitt Romney is actually worth, but I know it's in that range at least. His wife has had the misfortune to devlop MS and breast cancer. Now imagine a poor family, where the husband and wife have low-wage jobs without health insurance -- if they are lucky enough to have jobs at all. If that wife develops the same health problems, her family is staring down the barrel of financial disaster. I wonder if Mitt and Ann ever think about that.

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