Ironically, Michelle Bachman and her GOP gang who have sufficient medical care want to appeal what they call "Obama Care." Technically, it isn't Obama Care; Congress passed this bill that Sen. Ted Kennedy fought for throughout his political life. The states? Come on, politicians and people who think the 45 million uninsured have no right to medical care even though Congress and their loved ones have Cadillac Care at taxpayer expense. (Congress, how about paying premiums for your own health care? How about donating 10% of your salary toward so-called lucrative "Obama Care". That would be a start for you who claim you care about taxpayers' quality of life. While we're at it: How about reducing your salary by 10% to help balance the budget? And how about working half-time since you don't do enough for a full-time job and full-time taxpayer money)
It's God-awful that you choose to put politics before people who pay your salaries. And by the way, in case you forgot, it isn't just your district that pays your salary. The money comes out of the same iron pot. Oh, by the way, did it ever occur to you that medical cost is higher when people don't get preventive care or early-stage treatment. Oh, I cannot forgot the eerie words of young and old who say: "They just want us to roll over and die. They don't care if we die." I try hard not to believe this, but I'm cynical by trade: You're widow- and widower-makers not to mention the young children losing their own lives and many left without parents. Many of you have no creative thinking skills and, of course, no shame either, but it's all about the money, isn't it? Well, that's why you should take at least one or two of my suggestion.
Oh, yeah, let's pass the torch to the callous states, which have had nearly a half century to provide health care the GOP debaters keep spewing about. Some states, like Wisconsin, are in the process of abandoning the Medicaid program that has allowed uninsured, necessary coverage. North Carolina lets people die from high blood pressure when that medication is widespread and dirt cheap.
My brother fell dead because of hypertensive cardiac disease, which derives from long-term, untreated high blood pressure. He lost his health, his home, and his wife when he couldn't get a full-time job despite his brick layer skills. He was a homeless and indigent man who worked as a day laborer, and subcontractors refused to pay him on Friday as they promised. He was helpless and hopeless with a family of origin unable to take care of themselves. My sister, a caregiver for my mother, and minimal worker without health insurance on the job, fell ill because of a heart disease and continuous high blood pressure. Her fifty dollar co-pay prevents her from keeping critical meds on hand. Her doctor and many others require patients to return to their office to get refills. (It's all about the money, um huh) No matter how serious your blood pressure is, you get no meds even if the pharmacist requests it. My Walgreen's gets approval without hesitancy.
Most of my family and tens of thousand others are suffering and dying because they lack basic and/or critical care. State governments have had five decades to do what Republicans call state rights. Baloney. But the Bachman clan vows to appeal "Obama Care" and let the state cover the uninsured. (Oh, by the way, every uninsured person isn't uneducated and poor. Many of these people lost their jobs or lost their coverage because employers dropped coverage or simply never could "afford" to provide it for their low-rent employees. In order to get around providing benefits with health insurance, in some cases, employers exempt part-time workers from the benefit. Others force employees to work 37 hours or less to avoid providing benefits.
Now the Supreme Court is going to decide what a lower court says was legal. I have no queries of why this country is off track: Rich gets richer. Poor gets poorer. Middle class is sliding in the mud. My dad always said, "Republican is the party of the rich." My great-grandmother, my father-in-law -- all who lived to be ripe aged wisdom -- said the same.
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