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(7,170 posts)This whole thing makes no sense. Typically, policemen and firefighters have very good insurance and disability due to the dangerous nature of their jobs. I can't believe that during his entire career as a sheriff that he didn't have health insurance provided by the government. What on earth was he planning to do if he got shot and ended up in intensive care?
He actually cancelled his existing policy provided by his local government because he was annoyed at the ACA? He didn't go to the insurance companies and self insure directly without using the state exchange? What's the story on his wife not carrying an insurance policy? He didn't try and hook up with one of those Christian health cost sharing groups where people send donations to each other? If he got shot in the line of duty and crippled what was the plan?
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Okay so he worked 10 years as a police officer and then 8 years as an elected sheriff. So why didn't he work 2 more years in law enforcement and get the pension and retirement health care? Police officers often retire early, so why not do your time and collect your bennies, like lots of RWers?
Why run off and do all this advocacy? Unpaid or without benefits??? He's a big guy and I'm sure his chloresterol and BP were up, so his doctor was telling him a heart attack was in the cards....
So with these health conditions in the background, he decided to roll the dice? He was getting annual physicals in law enforcement, so he wasn't ignorant. Heart attacks rarely rise up out of nowhere.
If he's well connected enough to raise money and get elected office, why didn't his buds get him a job in law enforcement.
Something is weird.
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