Obama care is here. In theory I can buy insurance from the WA health exchange in a bit (oh we are all probably on a path to doom death despair and destruction as per the GOP)
I first lost employee funded insurance in Jun 2009. Fun times!!!
Since then, here is what I have realized about the system as it exists! Trying to buy individual insurance and dealing with the insurance company is roughly equivalent to
Having to sit on a cactus!
A thorny cactus!!
With fire ants on it!!!
Without lubricant!!!!
Clear. Oh good. On the other hand all my gainfully employed friends (99% of whom all make oodles of money by any standard) really don't have a problem with the healthcare system as it stands pre-Obama care .
So like every other system there will be winners and losers and in the current system people like me who have not had access to employee funded HI were clearly the losers. I don’t know if the affordable care act will fix any or all or my issues with the insurance industry but you know what; I am absolutely certain it cannot get any worse. Will there be any losers because of the ACA. Of course! And you know what suck it!!!!!
Recent events with the health situation in my family have made me really think about how ridiculous the Pre ACA situation in this country was/is.
The way in which insurance companies will try and dictate the care you get, right down to subtly and not so subtly making sure that diagnostics procedures like MRI’s etc are scarce is downright disgusting.
For someone like me who has options it’s not the end of the world, but I really wonder how other folk manage.(I can guess and it’s not pretty).
The battle over the affordable care act and the road to even more decent outcomes for health care is really very simple:
We are the richest country in the world and some of us think it is not ok to say “there is a treatment available for what you have and if you can’t afford it suffer in silence you serf” or even worse “Your problem could have been easily detected and solved if you only had done your medical checkup in time. Oh no money?could not afford it? yeah well then death becomes you “
This is a true story, last year someone I knew died from colon cancer. He was 36. It is very rare in someone so young.
Fun fact : had they caught it time who knows.
Funnier fact : doctor told him to get a colonoscopy some months ago.
Totally hilarious fact: he was not too well off, in between jobs, his shitty insurance would not pay for a colonoscopy for anyone under 50.
Outstandingly ROTFLAMO fact: He could not afford what a colonoscopy would cost on his dime so he choose to risk it . 5 cards later (poker players will get it)…. suck out!!!
The Oscar for the best comedic performance fact: Obama care = death panel
Now when faced with the story above one can say
“shit happens, Blessed be the name and works of Ayn Rand”
or one could try and be a human being and think about ways to mitigate this (no Senator I agree we cannot save everyone) which involves some of us paying for others, so that in the event we ever need the help we get it ( whether it is taxes for a single payer system or a mandate where the healthy subsidize the sick in the event you ever get sick )
And finally while we are at it, this one is for all those idiots who make an excellent living , have employee funded health care , and cannot really point to anything that the affordable care act does , that will personally hurt them but FREEDOM something !!( that would be every single republican in both houses of congress)
You know what, I hope you choke on your vomit and die. I hope you your kin and the ones you love all suffer from cancer of the balls or vagina or whatever and then are told that there is a super easy treatment sadly which cannot be afforded to you because you know freedom
I hope you get a genetically mutated form of chicken pox and watch in amazement and pain as your skin peels off in agony, but you stay comforted at the thought that FREEDOM!
May your next shampoo give you all the side effects of chemo therapy without chemo and then cancer so now you can take chemo again BUT hey good news , because now that you know, why you will never buy that shampoo again !
Hopelessness, dread, despair, gloom, agony, destruction, pain and suffering , may they be your eternal companions.
Oh and Have a nice day!
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