Fancy That - Some RW Friends Of Ours Are Suddenly Supporters Of Obamacare

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39. Health care really is the key

The couple in question was reasonably affluent, it seems. People in their situation can make plans for just about anything. They can live in a gated community. They can hire their own security and fire services. They can plan their assets so they live well the rest of their lives.

But the one thing they can't plan for is a medical situation that costs hundreds of thousands -- or millions -- of dollars. The way we did health care before the ACA, One unlucky diagnosis can wipe out all the assets of a couple that has even 5 million bucks in the bank.

A heart arrhythmia that requires a few days in the hospital can cost 100 grand easily, and that's a relatively minor condition.

It truly is only the 0.1% that are safely above the reach of health care bankruptcy.

The only real difference between Republicans and Democrats is that Republicans can't anticipate it or empathize with it until it happens to them personally. Republicans see some of our neighbors suffering and their first instinct is "look at those takers." Democrats see some of their neighbors suffering and say "there but by the Grace of God go I." (Or a non-religious variation on that theme -- you get the point.)