Well…with all of the repub bleating about “socialized medicine” and that it is the worst thing that could ever happen to anyone, I just wanted to comment a little on that and the difference that it has made in my life. For the past 16 years, I have not been able to afford health insurance of any kind…with the low end cost of almost 1200 dollars a month that no one could afford when no one will hire someone over 50 years old….with that, it was just a crap shoot to put off all of the care that I should have been doing…the check ups and the attention to problems that can happen as you get older but there was barely enough money to eat, let alone spend the thousands that check ups cost. After I turned 65 and Medicare was made available to me at 134 dollars a month, I was finally able to find out where I stand with my health…with covered check ups and referrals that I am still taking advantage of…I was finally able to see a dermatologist for the sore on my neck that has been there since May and found out it is probably skin cancer…and it is going to be treated this week as the pre-cancerous lesions were during the first appointment…over a dozen of them on my face and scalp…and, here’s the kicker, Medicare covered them without any co-pays or out of pocket expenses…as they will for the colonoscopy that I have scheduled for next month…and as they did for my initial check up that found that my cholesterol and BP were a little high and helped guide me to lifestyle changes to lower my risk of problems down the road. Now, who but a repub could argue that Medicare for all is a bad thing, that taking care of everyone in this country and getting rid of the stress of uncertainty is a bad thing? I know in my case that being able to see a doctor for the first time in 16 years has taken huge amounts of stress out of my life…why shouldn’t we do that for everyone? Ask a repub the next time you talk to one….
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The repubs are coming for your insurance…
Well…with all of the distractions from the bull trump crashing and bashing the institutions that have kept the peace since the end of WWII, one little thing has flown under the radar is the pending attack the the repubs have planned on everyone’s health insurance. Specifically, they are going after protections for people who have pre-existing conditions and are going to allow insurance companies to go back to the bad old days where acne or broken bones were enough for them to deny insurance to anyone. I know that people who have employer provided insurance think this has nothing to do with them, that they are immune to this sort of thing and they can just keep voting for repubs and it won’t affect their lives…well, guess again…this new repub plan covers all health insurance in the US both from the ACA and from employers….the latest estimate is that over 165 million people have pre-existing conditions under the new rules that the repubs want to pass…and that’s 165 million of our fellow Americans who now will go back to the bad old days when one illness was all that it would take to bankrupt people and take away what they worked for the entire lives. This is what you get when you vote for repubs…tax giveaways to the rich and corporations, and now taking health insurance away from almost half of the people in this country…these folks are just evil….
Hypocrisy seems to be the theme of the day…Ted Cruz…
Well….with all of the efforts by ole Ted to try to make sure no one in the middle class or working poor get any subsidies to help make their healthcare affordable…we have this delicious little tidbit about where he gets his healthcare….turns out he is covered by his wife’s policy at Goldman Sachs where she is a managing director making over 10 million dollars a year…and, since her policy that is conservatively estimated to be worth over 20 thousand dollars a year is considered part of her compensation, she doesn’t have to pay the estimated 8,500 in taxes it would cost if it was compensation….so in effect, they are getting a tax credit or subsidy of over 8,500 dollars a year to help them purchase their health insurance. I find it so damn hypocritical that ole Ted spends all of his time trying to eliminate Obamacare and it’s subsidies to the little guy while he and his family wallow in the largess of tax breaks for their healthcare…and I bet she even has her income treated like ole Mitt’s as carried interest and pays only 8-10% while the rest of us pay up to 30%. Typical hypocrisy that is rampant from all of the repubs these days…geez…