My wife, Donna, and I did not have health insurance when she was diagnosed with cancer last year. (see earlier post.) She had left a job with insurance, and was looking into buying private insurance when it all hit the fan.
Thanks to the Affordable Health Care Act (a.k.a. ObamaCare), we were able to get insurance even with Donna's pre-existing condition. If opponents of this law had had their way (and they eventually may), we would have been denied insurance, and would have faced severe financial stress while trying to fight a life threatening disease.
There's been an awful lot of nasty rhetoric being tossed around, decrying this law as unconstitutional. An invasion of privacy. An attack on our freedom.
I thought they were talking about Facebook.
This is about health insurance. Not Communism. Not the Taliban. Not gay whales. Not Mo-Cap. Health insurance. We are being forced to get insurance. Insurance companies are being forced to insure the sick. That's the deal.
Some gnash their teeth in panic, imagining that their fears and prejudices come to life and gang-bang them in the name of ObamaCare. Donna and I experienced this law in the real world, first hand. It helped us. That's not a Democratic thing nor a Republican thing. It's a human thing.
-Steve
And now, a cartoon.....
Bimbo's Initiation
Not unlike getting a law through Congress.
