I use these Letters to the Editor from the Houston Chronicle once in awhile as a reminder that the Republican ugliness that has driven this nation into the ground for the past 30 years is alive and well. The cold selfish ugliness expressed by this woman is not specific to Texas. It is specific to the Tea Parties, and the Republicans who are the Tea Parties. They make up about 1 in 3 Americans who will suffer tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, earthquakes and volcanoes to vote against anyone they perceive as smarter than they are.
No to coddling
Health care is a priority item that American families must put in their budgets along with gas, food and electricity.
But too many people prioritize in a different direction. They would rather have designer fashions, fancy cell phones or an expensive SUV.
I don’t feel that is the responsibility of Americans who budget for and pay for health insurance to be taxed to the hilt so lazy, irresponsible citizens can have health care insurance.
Socialized medicine will ruin this country and create a class of dependent leeches that our government does not have the funds to coddle.
Linda Taylor, Baytown - Letters Houston Chronicle
This ugly selfishness is not specific to health care but resides in the black hearts of everything this Tea Party mentality sets voice to. It is simply put, we either live up to these Republican decrees, standards, and values or we die and good riddance to bad rubbish. This Republicanism comes unedited and unabridged directly from Hell. You can not only see it right there, but you can feel it in your bones.
This leaves me with about $200 per month, after taxes, to spend on healthcare, provided an emergency like needing to replace my brakes, or what-have-you, comes up. The best insurance I can afford for under $200 per month for a young, single, healthy male such as myself has a $10,000 deductable and a $30 co-pay. Basically, if I need to see the doctor for anything I am financially ruined with or without insuarance. Thus, I save that $200 a month by not paying for insurance that will screw me over in the end anyway.
In 1999, I had "great" health insurance, I was a week away from starting my freshman year of college what I was a victim of a hit and run. I spent 30 hours in intensive care and my "great" health insurance only covered the ambulance ride ($1500) and stuck me with $37,000 in medical bills. They're claim was that the hospital I was taken to was not a "preferred provider". Had I not been in a coma at the time I would have made sure that the EMTs took me to a "prefferred" hospital.
My loss of my baseball scholarship due to my injuries coupled with the draining of my college fund. as a result of the insurance company's failure to do it's job, forced me to finish 4 years of college in just under 10 years and leave me $100,000 in debt to various student "aid" providers.
Screw Linda Taylor. I want my socialized medicine!
Some are government and some are non profit private sector and all cost about $3000 a year including subsidizing those who cant pay.
In all 5 countries the narrator asked if anyone goes broke paying medical bills. They all looked dazed, OF COURSE NOT they all answered but the look was we are a civilized people not barbarians.
As for Linda Taylor, I'd love to see her lose her cushy benefits, as that is the only way people like
her ever get a taste of reality.
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